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School: St Anne's, Easkey (roll number 13968)

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Easky, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Cáit Nic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0165, Page 149

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    A cure for a Burn.
    There is a man in Roslea and he has a cure for a burn, because he is the fifth son.
    When he was a boy his father rubbed a lizard on his tongue, and wherever the burn is, he licks it and it becomes all right. The mans name is William O' Dowd.
    Laura Buffe,
    St. Anne's N.S
    Easkey
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. burns (~116)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Laura Cuffe
    Gender
    Female