School: Castlepollard Boys (roll number 5513)
- Location:
- Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: William Coghlan
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- (continued from previous page)the doctors won't give in to it. It is a leaf which he gets out of a river and other things which form a plaster and he puts it on the sore. His father before him has the cure, and the secret plaster is handed down from generation to generation.There are a lot of people around these districts who can cure certain diseases.
A man named Christy McCormack who lives in Corbally has the cure of the Running Worm. He got this because he is the seventh son of the family. When he was young a worm was put into his hand and he held it till it died.
In this way he got the cure. This is the way a person is cured. The person goes to this "doctor" as he is called by the people out of the country. He makes the sign of the cross on the affected part of the body. The person comes twice more and then he is cured.
- Collector
- Christy Delamere
- Gender
- Male
