School: Leacht na mBard (Latnamard) (roll number 16769)

Location:
Latnamard, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
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    it in water to the sick child. Give the child three drops of water out of the fishes mouth, the release the trout in the exact spot where you caught it.
    The rickets are cured by a blacksmith whose people have for three hundred years been blacksmiths. The parents hold the child on the anvil and the blacksmith makes three strokes at the infant while saying certain prayers.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English