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School: Glanworth (B.) (roll number 4837)

Location:
Glanworth, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Liam Ó Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0373, Page 089

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    Toothache
    If a person with a tooth-ache walked under the hind legs of a white horse with a rider on its back and asked the rider for a cure and what the rider would tell him and did immediately what the rider told him he would be cured of the toothache.
    Cholera
    People used put the cover of a pot reddened on a fire on the chest of a person stricken with Cholera to cure him
    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
    Michael Fouhy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glanworth, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs B. Fouhy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    53
    Address
    Glanworth, Co. Cork