School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)

Location:: Bellanurly, Co. Sligo
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If you hold a mouthful of smoke in your mouth - cigarette or pipe - it will cure toothache. To cure earache you put a bit of black sheep's wool in it. It is a cure for chilblains too. If placed between the first and second toes it will cure bunions. An onion heated in the oven and put in the ear will cure earache.
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It is believed in Lislakelly, Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo where I live that if you go to a graveyard and take a tooth out of a skull it will cure a toothache. I never heard of anybody trying this. A double hazel nut is also supposed to be a cure.

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