School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 052
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- Thrush.
Thrush or the dirty mouth as it is sometimes called can be cured by a charm. A person who never saw his or her father or was born after his fathers death has the cure. He breathes three times into the mouth of the child who has thrush and it gets well. Toothache.
There are a good many cures for toothache. There is a wishing tree in the graveyard of Mullandoy and if you walk round it three times and stick a pin in its bark and wish for your toothache to get better your wish will come to you. A man who lives in this district has the charm cure for toothache and his name is John McCabe. He writes out a prayer and gives it to the person with the toothache and he is not supposed to look at it.
- Collector
- Jim Patterson
- Gender
- Male
