School: Drumcrave
- Location:
- Drumcrauve, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0975, Page 250
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- It is believed that a cure for the whooping cough is for the god-father to tie a red silk ribbon on the child's neck, and it would never go in kinks.
To cure the sting of a nettle, is to rub a docking to it and say, Docking docking in and out, Take the sting of a nettle out.
- For instance, to keep away toothache the people used to say prayers, when they saw the new moon.
- Collector
- Peter Gaffney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pollamore Near, Co. Cavan
