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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 137

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  1. Travelling Folk (continued)

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    When they come about the country they pull bushes out of the ditches and when they are going they leave old pieces of cloth and papers lying about the road.
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  2. Local Cures

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Wilfred Lowry
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Graddum, Co. Cavan

  3. Local Cures

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    Scour in Calves. No. 84.
    Boil dried or withered oak leaves and cinnamon in sweet milk and bottle it to the calves three or four times a day.
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  4. Local Cures

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    To Cure a cut or sore. No 85.
    Get a dog to lick it several times a day.
    To cure sickly turkeys. 86
    Get a live spider and let it crawl down the turkey's throat.
    To cure warts 87.
    Rub them with the knots on straw in the name of the Trinity
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