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School: Ramonan

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0996, Page 041

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    Long ago people had a lot of cures. If a person had a stye on his eye, he would go out and get nine thorns off a goose berry bush, and point each thorn three times at the stye.
    People cured toothache by getting a pin and pricking the the tooth three times, and putting the pin in a place where the sun would not shine on it. If anyone had bad legs he would go to a house where the seventh son or seventh daughter was, and he put his hand on them and said something.
    People used to cure a person who had a bad heart by getting a cup of oatmeal and putting a cloth over it, and they would shake it over the place where his heart was. If anyone fell and there came a lump on his head he got a cold stone and put it
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Matilda Hawthorne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Claddagh, Co. Cavan