School: Liscarbin (roll number 13697)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   cure the chin cough.
   Tom Fee can stop bleeding. he says some prayers over the person who is bleeding.
   P. Earley has a cure for warts. He makes ten crosses out of ruskes. He buries nine and trows away the tenth.
   On Tuesdays and Thursdays he makes it. Jimmy Cassels has also the cure of the "Thursh". He blows his breath three times on the person affected in the name of the father and the son of the holy ghost.
   Mrs Beirne has the cure of the jaundice. she gets a young mouse, boils it, and the water she boils it in is given to the person who has the jaundice.

   

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2. Fairy Forts

   

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   Fairy Forts There is quite number of fairy forts in my district. Each for is surrouned by a number of small little bushes and inside there is a small patch of green grass. Nobody would cut a bush in a fort or a lone bush. If they did it would bring bad luck on them. Fairies lived in it along time ago

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Marie Darcy

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Hugh Moran

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gortnawaun, Co. Leitrim