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School: Ramonan

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Ramonan, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0996, Page 043

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  1. Local Cures

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    When people had ailments in olden times they went to people who had the cure or cured it themselves.
    Certain people who live in the district have cures for certain ailments, the seventh daughter or seventh son have power to heal these ailments. If a person had ringworm he would go to this "quack" and he would put some plaster on it and that would cure it, or else he would go to the seventh son or daughter and he would bring him in to a dark room and rub his hands over it and say some words, and that would heal it, the same is done with a whitlow.
    If a person had a stye on his eye he would get nine gooseberry thorns
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Neville Hawthorne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Claddagh, Co. Cavan