School: Annalitten

Location:
Annalittin, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
A. Mac Suibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0942, Page 213

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0942, Page 213

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  3. XML “A Cure for Whooping”
  4. XML “A Cure for Warts”
  5. XML “A Funny Cure for a Burn”

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  2. It is quite common in this district to put a horses hair tightly around a wart. It has to be kept on till it cuts off the wart.
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  3. Home cures are not practiced much now. Long ago the people used have great faith in the cures and many times the people would succeed in curing their patients. But now the doctors are plentiful and even poor people are treated without payment so that home cures are things of the past. A man-creeper is a small animal in the shape of a man and it creeps along boggy ground. It is is said that a man creeper would jump into
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