School: Johnstown (roll number 877)
- Location:
- Johnstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Miss H.C. Hickie
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- (continued from previous page)This performance was repeated 3 times with three different glasses of meal.
Then the patient was instructed to take the 3 bags home and start the following morning taking No 1 bag. It could be taken any way cooked or raw great precautions being taken not to lose one grain. If a gran chanced to fall the charm would still be effective if it was burned.
These 3 bags of meal had to be taken fasting on 3 successive mornings.
3 visits have to be paid to this man as soon as possible when the same performance is gone through each time. ie you take 9 paper bags of meal altogether.
This cure is left alternately to make and female Mrs Lynch has had no re-currence of her heart attacks for about 18 months.
She told me that she may have one bad one before there would be a permanent cure.
- Collector
- H. C. Hickie
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Mrs P. Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Johnstown, Co. Meath
