School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)
- Location:
- Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Grannacháin
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- This is what I got from my father about cures. Here is what he said about toothache.
"Get a frog and put him into your mouth and shut it on him. Leave him there until he makes three screeches. Then take him out and let him go and the toothache is gone also". "Have you ever heard anyone to do that", I asked. He said he heard his grandfather did it long ago and that it cured his toothache.
This is what my father told me also about the chin-cough.
"Catch a trout and bring him home with you. Give three drops out of the trout's mouth to the child who has the chin-cough. Let the trout into the same river again alive."
This is another cure for the chin-cough.
"Go someplace where there is a ferret. Give him milk and all the milk he leaves after him bring it home and give it to the child who has the chin-cough.
This is what my father said about the ring-worm.
"Any boy who is the seventh son(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonaroya, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Anthony O' Boyle
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Doonaroya, Co. Mayo
