School: Sidhean (roll number 6501)

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1. Cures (continued)

   

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   1. Any child who never saw its father has a cure for it.

   Baldness.

   1. To burn an old boot and rub the ashes on the bald patch.

   Cure for animals. Blackleg.

   1. To cut a slit in the animal's ear will prevent blackleg.

   Overlook.

   1. To get a piece of the person's clothes and burn it under the animal's nose.

   2. To write the alphabet backwards on a piece of paper and burn the paper under the animal's nose.

   Milkfever felon.

   1. To get butter milk, mustard and flour and mix all up together and rub it on the cow's udder.

   Redwater.

   1. A man named Mc Enaney, St Mary's Clontibret has a cure for it. He has to get the colour of the cow and without coming to the house he cures her.

   

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2. Weather-Lore

   

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   For rain,
   1. When the sky seems dark and low.

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