School: Cill an Charnáin (roll number 11443)
- Location:
- Killycarnan North, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Meehan
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“Its never time to go home from a party until...”
(continued from previous page)can see a black pig in a bog.
- 1.Chincough:-Griddle cake of wheat meal,baked on a Friday and given for God's sake.
2.Stye on eye:- Point a gooseberry thorn 9 times on three successive days and stye will go.
3. Warts :-Clay from a graveyard,applied when the moon is on the wane will cure them.
4. Stitch in the side:-A handful of butter without salt will cureif accompanied by Sign of the Cross.
5.:-The cheek is rubbed to the pig's back or against the door of the sty,the disease enters into the pig.
6. :-The 7th son can cure the bite of a mad dog by rubbing the wound.(continues on next page)
