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School: Creach na mBearna

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Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 039

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    Local Cures
    When a person has the foul mouth he goes to a person who never saw his father and that person blows his breath three times on him. This cure can only be performed on Mondays and Thursdays. The cure for the whooping-cough is a ferrets leavings. Another cure for the whooping cough is to go out between an ass foal's legs. To take out a thorn a foxes tongue is put to the thorn and the foxes tongue draws the thorn out in a few days.
    The cure for a sty is to get ten gooseberry thorns and point them one by one to the sty and throw away the last one. This cure only be performed on Mondays and Thursdays. There is a leaf called
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Leo Layden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mary Ann Fallon
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    55
    Address
    Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon