School: Rathkenny (roll number 15483)
- Location:
- Rathkenny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 213
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- (1). To go into a piggery and walk round it three times saying:-
Mhucla, mhucla, seo duit do leicne,
leicne, leicne, seo duit do mhucla
(N.B. Leicne is name locally for mumps).
- (2) Another cure is to put a donkeys' blinkers (winkers locally) on the patient and lead him into and out of a piggery three times, each time repeating the words - "Huckery, muckery, huckery, muck."
- (1) Get a piece of bread for the patient from the house of a married couple of the same name before marriage.
- Collector
- Greta Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
