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1. Old Cures in Glangevlin - Hydrophobia (continued)

   

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   was past curing, and had to be put to death at once. The curer was not supposed to take any payment, but could take presents instead. The curer in Legnagrow was paid, but no one ever got the it after him. There is nothing to tell us now that he lived, except the old people and the crumbling old walls of his house.

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2. Old Cures in Glangevlin

   

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   Measel: It was a custom that people would go out and cut green nettle which grow beside the house. Those they would take in a boil. The water in which the nettles were boiled was given to the persons suffering with the measels, and this water was called nettle-tea. Then the disease was not taken badly.
   Mumps: When a person was first noticed taking them, he was taken out of the house, and brought round the house pig-sty nine times. The one that was bringing him around used to shout out "Muchlach, Muchlach, Muchlach." It seems that that the pig had something got to do the disease as muc is the Irish for pig. However, this was a cure.
   Chin-cough: As soon at it was taken, a young ass was taken into the house. The father would take the child suffering and life him across the animal, and in under him nine times. He would also do this also with the rest

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