School: Liss, Ballycumber
- Location:
- Grogan and Corroe, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sarah Howden
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 015
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- 1 A seventh son can cure ringworm but there must be no daughter between them. When he is curing it he must have a gold ring in his possession.
A worm is put in the child's hand when he is born, and when the worm dies, the child can cure ringworm.
His mother may teach him the prayer.
2 Any persons of the following names can cure wildfire. Digans-Walsh-Fitzgerald. If the wild fire meets on your body you will die.
3 Boiled buttermilk and sugar will cure a sore throat.
4(a) Any child that never saw his father may cure whooping cough.
(b) If two persons of the same name get married and make a wheaten cake and give it to anyone who has whooping cough it will cure it.
(c) If there is a white horse going the road, and a person has the whooping cough, a hair of the horse's tail will cure it.
5 Warts can be cured by the following ways.
(a) If a person is going along a path, and sees a snail, and nibs it on his warts, it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Robert Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Island, Co. Offaly
