School: Gortloney (roll number 11978)
- Location:
- Gortloney, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eoghan de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 208
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- (continued from previous page)and teethaches. You leave a rag on a bush, and the sores go away.
- Old CuresWritten by Lillie Guirke. 12th may. 1938Dirty mouth:- If there is a son born, and his father is dead before he is born, he has the cure of the dirty mouth. He breathes into the person's mouth, saying in the name of the father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.Whooping Cough:- If a woman has the same after she is married as before she has the cure of the whooping cough.Mumps:- Go round the pigsty three times, with an asse's winkers on, and say each time:- "A leekna! a leckna! sin agam do leckna, Mucka! Muckna, take it now".Rheumatism:- Rub goose grease into the place where the rheumatism is.(continues on next page)
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- Lillie Guirke
- Gender
- Female
