School: Dubhais (roll number 16323)
- Location:
- Dooish, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 310
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- Consumption Can be cured by swallowing a young frog.
Chin-Cough To be led under a female donkey three times.
Mumps A person whose father and mother were the same name before they we married can lead for the mumps. You have to be lead across a march burn three times.
Roal Any one the name of Walsh or McCathel can give a cure for it.
Evil The seventh son or seventh daughter can give a cur for it.
Measels When nettles are boiled the water is good for the measels
Warts Can be cured by rubbing water on the, if you get it in a stone without expecting to get it,
another cure is to get a small bag of clay and throw it after a funeral and say "Corpse of clay take my warts away.(continues on next page)
