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School: Loch gCarman (Christian Bros.)

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Wexford, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Br. Ó Héilighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0881, Page 202

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  1. Cures - Toothache

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    (a) If a person had a toothache and of he put his hands on a dead priests face his toothache would be cured.
    (b) If a person buried knots of hay in the ground and when they wither the persons toothache would be gone.
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    (c) Get a piece of paper and light it and pull in the smoke through your mouth, let it out through your nose and after a while the toothache will be gone.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. toothache (~180)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Hogan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Thomas Roche
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford

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    (d) Get a snail and stick it on a thorn-bush and when the snail has crawled off the bush the toothache will be gone.
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