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School: Athboy

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Athboy, Co. Meath
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Pilib Ó Néill Tomás Ó Domhnalláin
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  1. Folk Cures and Charms

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    Ailment
    Nature of Cure or Charm
    - Possessor of Cure
    Chronic Thorn
    Prayer over affected part & rubbing with thumb
    - Mrs Fr. Conlon, Addinstown
    Ringworm
    Lard, unsalted, butter, boiled and pulverized crowfoot rubbed in making the sign of the Cross
    - Several in Locality
    Warts
    1) Prayers & rubbing the sign of the Cross
    - Mr. F. Welsh, [?]
    2) A weed exuding a white substance
    - General
    3) Put rag on warts Bush; habing blessed warts with bush. When rag is worn warts disappear
    - Bush at side of road between Killallon & Clonmellon
    4) Putting pin in hole in stone
    - Martenstown Hill
    5) Put snail on thorn. When snail withers warts go.
    - General
    6) Fasting spit for nine mornings
    - General
    Running Worm
    1) Salted Butter & prayer
    (Salt an astringent & physiological saline - nourishes tissues hard a basin of [?] ointments
    - Mr. Casserly, Drunaree
    - Mr Pheit, Kilrush
    -Mr. F. Tully, Girley
    2) Person of opp. sex takes water out of lake near Oldcastle. Rubbing with moss & making the Sign of Cross
    - General
    Stye
    Get Gooseberry thorn (left to nature 7 days) & make Sign of Cross over Stye nine times for eight days.
    - General
    Heartache (Symptom of Indegestion - ended in usually in a minute)
    Put cup of meal to heart
    - "Dr" B Dolan, Kildalkey
    Whooping Cough
    1) Drinking milk of ass for twelve mornings
    - General
    2) Running in & out cross & back three times under black donkey
    - General
    Pains in Bones
    Rise three drops of water & cover say prayer
    - Mr Larry Gaffry, Kildalkey
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English