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School: An Teampoll Geal, Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 3549)

Location:
Whitechurch, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Liam Ó Faoláin

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0644, Page 58

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Tháinig Ciarraigheach go dtí an Éaglais ar a phaigh lae ag baint phrataí. Bhí sé ag dul go dtí an Aifreann maidin Lá Nodlaig. Bhí daoine bochta na sráide ag seasamh ag an droichead. Do bheannaigh an Ciarraigeach dóibh agus d'iarr sé ortha an raibh sé in am chun an Aifreann. "Ó" arsa na daoine "tá an Sagart Paróiste thíos ag an ngeata agus níl aon pingin againne chun cuir san mbosca.
Chuaidh an Ciarraigeach síos agus cuir sé pingin san mbosca agus arsa sé leis an sagart.
"Is oth liom a Shagairt gur caill tú an náire
Gur báire an ngeata Lá Nodlaig na Páise
Tá Luther agus Calvin ag briseadh a gcroí gáire
'S daoine bochta an bhaile ag seasamh na sráide"

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“It is said that if you had a toothache and you put a frog into a mouth and left him there until "screeched three times you would be cured immediately.”

It is said that if you had a toothache and you put a frog into a mouth and left him there until "screeched three times you would be cured immediately.
If you had a wart and if you would find a snail in the dew of the morning and put him on a black thorn bush until he would wither then to rub him to the wart it would die away.
There is also a cure in the grass that people gather May night. if it is boiled in new milk. People say that if you let the vessel that the grass was in on the ground while drinking it...

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Collector
Maggie Cashman
Gender
female
Address
Knocknaskagh Lower, Co. Waterford
Informant
(name not given)
Relation
parent
Gender
female
Age
50
Address
Knocknaskagh Lower, Co. Waterford
Language
English