School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 672
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(8)In the olden times, in this district of Kanturk, Barony of Duhallow, County Cork, if a person sneezed, he would say "Ave Maria" or "God bless us, God save us, Protect the dead and the living". It was said, that such a person would never get a toothache.Anyone who rubs the stomach of an Aire luachra [?], against his tongue, would be able to cure a burn.If a child had the whooping cough, it would be cured, if the mother saw a man driving a white horse, and asked the man for the cure for whooping cough. Any cure he would say would cure the child.If a person had a stye in his eye, it would be cured if he rubbed his fasting spittle to it three times, or to look through a pure gold ring.It is said, that if cattle had a disease called "red water", a herb called "Crane's Beak" would cure it. People pay rounds(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Neil Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greenfield, Co. Cork
