School: Cill Beathach (roll number 16807)

Location:
Kilbaha Middle, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Ceallacháin
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    If a person having the chin cough drank the leavings of a ferret's milk, he would be cured.

    If a person having the chin cough drank the leavings of a ferret's milk, he would be cured. A sty in the eye would be cured if the person looked through a married woman's ring. A person having the chin cough would be cured if he took the advice of a man that was passing the road with a white horse. If a person having warts got water in a stone without looking for it he would be cured. If a person having a toothache was at a church and if he got a nail of an old coffin and when he come
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Kennelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilbaha Middle, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Male