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School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)

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Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 168

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    Watercress is an herb going in wet soil and is supposed to be a cure for a toothache.
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    A Posthumous child has a special gift of curing a "fune" in a person's eye.
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    A dog which licks a sore is supposed to heal it.
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    To walk under an animal's legs such as a horse, mare, colt or such animals is said to cure an otherwise incurable disease, but if a person falls from a donkey's back is said to be incurable.
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    Tea-Leaves when rubbed to a wisp or sore eye in the morning are supposed to cure it.
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    A snail in a shell is supposed to cure a wart. It should be first rubbed well then placed on a blackthorn tree until it would again be used.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary J. Moynihan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drishane, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs E. Moynihan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    55
    Address
    Drishane, Co. Cork