School: An Cruachán (roll number 5243)
- Location:
- Croaghan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Chearra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 364
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- (continued from previous page)Mote in the eye - This cure is made by means of a saucer of water and by prayer. The person with the cure takes three mouthfuls of water from the saucer, throws the third into the saucer again and behold the mote will be there with it.
Chincough - Put the child three times under a young ass foal that has never worn a saddle. Finish the cure with a drink of spring water and the juice of flax seed.
Measles - Any person owing a piebald horse could cure this ailment. Whatever that person gives the sufferer to eat or drink will be a cure.
Rickets - This is cured by a blacksmith, whose people for three generations have handled the sledge. The parents hold the child on the anvil and the blacksmith makes three strokes at the infant, while saying certain prayers.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Wasson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croaghan, Co. Donegal
