School: Monksland (B.) (roll number 2791)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: G. Lowe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0659, Page 197
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- (continued from previous page)found that he was gradually getting smaller. In the end he disappeared into the bushes. The old folk say that it was only on certain nights that the fairies appear to human beings. This man passed by on many occasions after but never saw or heard anything again.
- The people of long ago were very superstitious and believed in many old funny cures.
The cure practiced for the mumps was to roll in a pigs bed. The cure for the measles was to give a piece of bread to a donkey and go under him three times. There was a cure for a lump that came on the toe known as the rose. This was to send some person out int a bog for mud and let him rub it on. This was to be done several time before a cure was affected. A cure for a sore throat was to tie some creeping insects around your neck in a silk scarf for a few days until the insects died. A cure for a wart was to rub a black snail on it and stick the snail on a thorn bush until it died. - Collector
- Seóirse Ó Cillín
- Gender
- Male
