School: Knockerra (B.) Killimer

Location:
Knockerra, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0629, Page 150

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    People say that there is a cure in Walshe's blood for ring-worm.

    People say that there is a cure in Walshe's blood for ring-worm. Some years ago a girl named Lizzie Walsh was going to school and a girl from Molougha met her in some part of the road and asked her for a drop of Lizzie's blood as there was a cure in it if it was rubbed on by Lizzie Walshe's hand she did it and the girl was cured in a short time.
    One night a man was coming home from a fair which was held in Ennis. He was on horseback and he thought he saw a light in front of the horse's head and try as he would he could not make the horse go faster than walking. He went on for some time and he got dazed and he went astray. He went into a house where he got his breakfast. He went riding on the horse again but he did not know which road to go for a long time but he recovered after some time and he went home.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. ringworm (~99)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Walsh
    Gender
    Male