School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0144, Page 374
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- (continued from previous page)a burned coal or a lighted match in his mouth. If they lick a burn it is cured.
- The jaundice is cured with (by using) loaf bread, and black tea, without any sugar in it.
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Hale
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tooreen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Forde
- Relation
- Not a relative
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tooreen, Co. Mayo
- The whooping cough can be cured in a lot of different ways also. When you have the whooping cough and if you met a man riding on a white horse, and to ask him for the cure, and the thing he tells you to take you would be cured if you took it.
The milk that the ferret leaves(continues on next page)
