School: Carlanstown (roll number 884)
- Location:
- Carlanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gérbheannaigh
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- (continued from previous page)It is never too late to mend.
Without a nail the shoe was last.
- 1.)The cure for ring worm is to put clay on it, and while you are rubbing it say "As I am clay so you are clay".
2.) When your leg goes asleep the cure for it, is to spit on it.
3.) A roasted onion is the cure for a pain in your ear.
4.) The cure for the whooping cough is the god-father to buy a red ribbon for the child.
5.) The cure for chilblains is to bathe your feet In hot water.
6.) The cure for a stye on your eye is to prod in with a torn of a goose berry bush, and go around the pig sty three times and say "Leckna, Leckna, eurgas na muc"
7.) The cure for the dirty mouth is the person to be brought, the person that has never seen(continues on next page)
