School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)

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1. Local Cures

   

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   Roasted salt put in a stocking and put round your neck is a cure of a sore throat.

   If you chew a piece of the skin of a young ash tree, it will cure a "heart-burn."

   A cup full of alder-berry wine along with a little water is good for a cough.

   If you got a burn you can cure is by putting bread soda on the part that is burned.

   The sting of a wasp of bee is cured by rubbing blue on the part that is stung.

   

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2. A Prayer to be Said When Going to Bed

   

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   "There are four corners on my bed, Four Angels overhead, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, God bless the bed that I lie on, Here I lie for to sleep, I give my soul to God to keep, And if I die before I wake, I give my soul to God to take."

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   Topics

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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. prayers (~3,266)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nancy Sheridan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Wilkinstown, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Brigid Flood

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Wilkinstown, Co. Meath