School: Melview, Longford (roll number 7518)
- Location:
- Knockawalky, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0757, Page 162
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- There is supposed to be a charm in this district for the whooping cough. The end of a candle that has been burned at a wake in the room where the corpse lay is brought into a house where children have the whooping cough and it is believed the children will get better immediately. Those having tooth aches will get better if they get a tooth from a skull in a cemetry and rub it on their own teeth. A gold ring is supposed to sure ring-worm. If the ring is rubbed on the ring-worm it will disappear after a short time. A woman named Mrs Berry who died a short time ago had a cure for warts, she used to pray over them and after that the warts went away. Her son cures them with straws and prayers. My grand Mother had a great cure for the burn. She used to put a poultice of cows manure on a cloth and put it round the burn and cured it. Mr. Reynolds of Corlea has a cure for thorns. He used the cure(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Joseph Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Melview, Co. Longford
