School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 208
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“People who have lumps in their throats will be cured by a girl who has certain long leaves growing in her garden.”
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- There is a disease which small children have called The Thrush. The cure is, any child that is born after his or her father dies, is able to cure it, by blowing their breath three times on the child that has the disease and then the child gets cured.
- Collector
- Rosaleen Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Margaret Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
- There is another cure for a tooth-ache(continues on next page)
