1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Mullagh (B)

School: Mullagh (B)

Location:
Mullagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
James Drury
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 035

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 035

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Mullagh (B)
  2. XML Page 035
  3. XML “Local Cures”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Cures (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    A person born on Whit Sunday or during Whit week was called a "kinkasheen" and was supposed to have the "evil eye". It was said they could "overlook" anything they laid their eyes upon and that it withered away and died. But if a green sod was placed over the person or animal overlooked no evil results would follow.
    A piece of eel skin wound over the wrist was a cure for "thaula"
    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
    James Drury
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62