School: Gowna
- Location:
- Scrabby, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Hugh Murray
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“When old men got their hair cut they gather it up...”
When old men get their hair cut they gather it up every hair and put it in a hole on a ditch.They believe that you will have to come back some time from the next world to collect it "so they put it in a place in which it will be easily got". - Get a hairy-lone-worm - bore a hole in a tree - put the worm in the hole in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, cork the hole and the child for whom you do that will never take the C. Cough
- Certain people have the cure of this. They put the bridle of an ass on the sufferer and drive him around a pig-sty.
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The ass though looked upon as a stupid animal, is a born leader. All other animals recognise this, but man thinks different.
