School: Ráth na Loch (C.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 17000)

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1. Bird-Lore (continued)

   

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   are white and dotted with red specks.

   There is a story told of how the robin obtained her red breast.

   When our Lord was hanging on the cross the little bird saw the nails that bound our Lord's hands and feet. She tried to peck at the nails and in so doing smeared her feathers. Ever since the robin has a red breast.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   In olden times when doctors were not as plentiful as they are now-a-days people sought their own cures by herbs and other home remedies. 1. Toothache if a person got a toothache he or she would go to a brook and catch a frog, then he would put his leg in his mouth and give it three scrapes with the bad tooth and the tooth was supposed to be cured immediately. 2. Another cure for this is to say whenever a person sneezes "Dia linn is Muire mháthair". 1. Chincough a cure for this is what a husband and wife of the same surname would have left over after their breakfast. 2. Another cure for this was, what the first man

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nellie Hannon

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Parknamulloge, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   John Hannon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   55

   Address

   Parknamulloge, Co. Kerry