School: Ros Nuala (Rossnowlagh) (roll number 11599)
- Location:
- Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 245
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- there are cures for many kinds of diseases such as follows.If one finds a stone in potatoes after they are boiled, it is a cure for toothache. This stone is rubbed three times to the tooth in the three best names. The father, son and the Holy Ghost. Then you throw the stone away. It is said that when you throw it away you also throw the pain away.The seventh son of a family, without a girl coming in between has the cure for the evil.If any father or mother are of the same surname their children can lead one ill of the mumps to a stream or to a bowl of water. The ill person takes three mouthfuls of the water in the name of the father, son, and Holy Ghost. Then the person is cured.If one licks a fish called an “Ash-Sleff” he has a cure for a burn on his tongue.If one has a sty on the eye and pulls ten gooseberry stabs and throws the tenth one away. Then point the other nine at the sty, and it will(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Carr
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killinangel More, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Carr
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killinangel More, Co. Donegal
