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School: Caisleán Gael (roll number 15337)

Location:
Castlegal, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
M. Ó Tiománaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0156, Page 025

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0156, Page 025

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  1. For a Person who Wets the Bed

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    A grass mouse must be found. This is easy in the harvest season as many can be got in wet meadows. It is killed and then boiled in milk - fresh of course - and given unawares to person who has the complaint.
    It won’t do if he or she knows that the mouse has been boiled in the milk.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English

  2. The Sty

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    A sty on a person’s eye is cured in this way. The person goes to a gooseberry bush and plucks 10 thorns. He throws away 9 and then points the remaining one at the sty
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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