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School: Kildangan (B.) (roll number 2291)

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Kildangan, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Liam Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 177

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    secret and from what I could discover it is not a very nice or hygienic cure.
    Another person treats those who receive a wound from a pointed implement such as a fork. The would does not become sceptic after the cure. Another very closely guarded secret.
    Yet another treats a wound got from a prick of a thorn so that it will just heal up & not become sceptic. Secret
    A man here has a prayer which has the power of stopping bleeding whether from a wound or from the nose. This cure operates on Catholic & Protestant alike but the man is a Catholic. I could not get the prayer.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English