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School: Courtbane (roll number 14540)

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Courtbane, Co. Louth
Teacher:
P. Mac Eochagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0664, Page 120

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    The mumps are cured by putting the ass's bridle on the person and getting some one to drive him around the pig stye. The driver must say "Mucna, sin a ghabd do leicne".
    The sty is cured by getting nine goose-berry thorns and pointing them at the person's eye. A man has to cure a woman and a woman has to a man. It has to be done for three days before sun set.
    Some times when children are young they take the rickets. They are cured by going to the blacksmith's and going around the anvil three times for three nights.
    Wildfire is cured by any one bearing the name of Hughes. The man or woman who is curing the
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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
    Brigid Mc Shane
    Gender
    Female