School: Béal Cláir (B)
- Location:
- Belclare, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Cristíne Bean Uí Fhithcheallaigh
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- There are many people who have cures for diseases.
It is said that if there are seven boys born after another in a family that the seventh has a cure for boils, if he measures the boil with a ring three times and the boil will be cured.
The person who was born after the death of his father has a cure in his mouth. For a sore mouth he blows three times in the mouth and cures it.
When people have toothache to put a frog in their mouth and lick it the toothache will be cured.
If a person had warts on his hand and if he rubs a snail on the warts and if he puts a thorn through the snail and then hangs the snail on a bush. While the snail is withering away the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bríghid Ní Ainmneach
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmore, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Micheál Ó Ainmneach
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Cloonmore, Co. Galway
