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School: Abbey (Naomh Feichín)

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Abbey, Co. Galway
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Séan de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0052, Page 0417

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    1. Cures for chin cough:
    If you meet a man at a cross-roads with a white horse and ask him what to give the child, whatever he would say is supposed to cure him. The food that a ferret would leave after him.
    2. Cures for warts:
    To rub a snail on your warts, and stick him on a torn, off a (whte) white-torn bush and according as the snail is rotting away, the warts are rotting away. To steal fat meat and rub it on your warts and put it in the maure. If you went to a forge three Sunday mornings between first and second Mass.
    3. Cures for ring-worm
    The seventh son is able to cure it
    4. Cures for sore-eyes and sore mouths:
    a child that
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Madden
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Barnaboy, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Bob Larkin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Barnaboy, Co. Galway