School: Skryne (roll number 1210)
- Location:
- Skreen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)It is a bad sign. It is said when you only see one Magpie it is a bad sign because the other one is keeping the eggs dry. When the Swallow is flying high is a good sign, and when she is flying low it is a bad sign. When our Lord was dying on the cross a robin that was pitying Him at the foot of the Cross, a drop of blood fell upon her breast and that is how she got her name Robin red Breast. Patrick O'Brien
- Loacal CuresByMary TobinIf a child never saw his father, that child would have the cure of the sore mouth. Asses milk for consumpton If a man and woman got married with the same name, and that woman to give you bread, you would have the cure of the sore mouth. If you had a wart on your hand and rub a snail to it, and hang that on a thorn, and by the time that snail is withering the wart is withering. Ferrets milk for the chin-cough. If you had a stye on your eye, get nine thorns of a goose-berry bush, and point them to it nine times and it will cure it. For a sting of a nettle get a dockle and wet it and put it on the sting and it will cure it.
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- Mary Tobin
- Gender
- Female
