School: Baile an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Rós Nic Airchinnigh
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- Thrush: - Go fasting on three successive mornings to a posthumous person who must also be fasting. He "blows his breath" three times into the infected mouth and says "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy ghost." "Heart Fever" = One woman in the district has the cure. The person who is suffering from the disease visits her, fasting, on three mornings. The woman gets a glass of oatmeal and puts it to the heart and while she is saying a prayer the "worms" eat the oatmeal and die, and then the person(continues on next page)
