School: Geevagh (roll number 1213)
- Location:
- Geevagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0181, Page 162
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- A child who is born after the death of its father has the cure of Foul Mouth.
The child has to make the sign of the cross on its own forehead then breathe into the mouth of the person affected.
It is done on Monday and Thursday. The person's mouth soon gets well.
- Collector
- Ethna Fallon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- J. Gallagher
- Address
- Geevagh, Co. Sligo
- Cure of the Burn:
Rub the ‘mankeeper’ three times on a person’s tongue. If that person rubs his tongue three times on a burnt part there will be no blister.
The mankeeper is a kind of lizard found under stones in soft wet places. It is two or three inches long, has a head like a frog and four small feet like arms with fingers on them.
If it got into a person’s stomach nothing would put it out only very salty food. A man swallowed a mankeeper. He took nothing only salt water for a week. He lay down over a well and the mankeeper and nine young ones jumped out of his mouth into the well.
Teasy Gallagher. Geevagh N. S. Boyle.
Information given by: Patrick MacHugh, Geevagh, Boyle, Co. Ros.(continues on next page)
