School: Tarmon (roll number 13997)
- Location:
- Tarmon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: P. Layden
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0205, Page 238
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- Long ago the old people had old cures and when anyone was sick they used to cure themselves. They used not send for any doctors like we do now. The doctors were not so plentiful then as they are now. They had these old cures so follow
1. If you sting yourself with nettles the rheumatic is cured
2. If you had a foul mouth and get a boy the seventh son in a family that did not see his father and blow his breath on it and it is cured.
3. If you point a gooseberry thorn seven times at a sty on your eye and then throw it across your shoulder it will get well.
4. If you have a sore(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Patrick Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Falty, Co. Leitrim
