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School: Scoil na mBráthar, Loch Garman (roll number 16742)

Location:
Wexford, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
An Br. D. C. Ó hÉilighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 325

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    Consumption: Eat oysters or snails. When getting the snails the best are the ones which are found on the grass in the morning.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Cures

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    Cure for Whooping Cough: Walk the child (sick) under an ass three times saying: 'In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Then give the ass a piece of bread to eat and give the crumbs that fall from the ass's mouth to the child to eat.
    Wart Cure: Gather seven white stones on the strand and rub the warts with them three times and then throw them away on a cross-roads and the warts will go away.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford