School: Órán Mór (B) (roll number 4506)
- Location:
- Oranmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál Ó agus Máire Bean Uí Shuilleabháin
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Rain water fallen in hole on tofu of a rock is a cure for wants. This is also a cure for coins. If you go out on a dewy morning and find a snail and rub the snail on the warts on your hand it will cure the. If you make the sign of the cross with your spittle –fasting- three times for nine mornings on the warts on your hand, they will be cured. A fox tongue rubbed on a burn will cure it.If you have a toothache and put a snail in your mouth for a four minutes- it will be cured. Cobwebs will stop any kind of bleeding- cut, finger, nose et.A son who has never seen his father has a cure for wildfire- If he breathes on the wildfire three times it will cure it If a child in the house has whooping cough- a man going the road with a white horse has a cure for it.(continues on next page)
