School: An Drom Clochach (B.)
- Location:
- Dromclogh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pártholán Ó Ruadhacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0408, Page 059
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: An Drom Clochach (B.)
- XML Page 059
- XML “Charms”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)her soul and if I liked, I could stop the waters of the river Jordan of flowing." So the priest said no more, but went away.
He was also great for setting sprains. He would get a briar and he had certain words he used to say. He would put a briar around the leg or the hand, or wherever the sprain would be and at the same time he would be saying the words, and according as he would be saying them the briar would be closing in, and just when the two ends of the briar would meet the sprain would be set.
The old women in olden times had charms also. When they would want to steal milk or butter or anything from their neighbours they used have a hoop hanging up over the room door and they used to pass it over their heads and they would be turned into a hare immediately.
- Collector
- Patt Mc Elligott
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Banemore, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Mc Elligott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Banemore, Co. Kerry
