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1. Folk Cures and Charms

   

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   Under this caption, I am afraid that I will be slow to collect "definite" material. It is there, but to probe for recipes and methods is generally the road to complete failure. However, I give what i have got - in an incidental manner - and perhaps more may follow. There was a man in Ballymacscradeen and he could not sit down nor lie down. He had a sore on his backside ag an anus nú b'fheidir ar an dtaobh istigh ann. Old X-Y- made a poultice of snails, seilmidí you know, and cured him in nine days. It was the bad disease he had and ti was cured. (Pat Allen. He supplied me with the name of the patient and the "lady doctor" X-Y), but I only noted the main facts and have now forgotten the names. The "bad disease" is cancer.) Jaundice in this area is invariably treated and cured by a "quack." The doctor is not called to deal with it except in very rare instances and even then the results are neither as quickly arrived at nor as satisfactory as when the "nine mornings visit is paid" by the man with the cure. Where I sit writing this note, I saw our local man "making up" the recipe for my wife, who, if colour and the opinion of a clever Limerick City M.D., Dr. Kennedy, count for anything, had a very severe form of it. Our man by name Johnnie Murphy, was immediately commissioned by my wife, when the Dr. had diagnosed her trouble, and each morning for nine mornings he mixed a small quantity of some ingredient with about three

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Daithí O Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   Donnchadh O Donnghaile

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Dr Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Doctúir

   Informant

   Harry Costelloe

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   74

   Address

   Garrane, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Jim O Connell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cahirduff, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Liam O Corcorda

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   40

   Address

   Croom, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Máire Ní Cartaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   19

   Occupation

   Cailín aimsire

   Informant

   Micheal Devaney

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Micheál O Tuathail

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Pat Allen

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Tim Hederman

   Gender

   Male