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    VII
    A woman who lives in Delvin Westmeath has the cure of "Sciatica" A river runs near her house and you pick a pebble out of it, and hold it against the flow of the river and then rub it to your back and say some prayers and then you are cured.
    VIII Cure for Toothache
    There is some priests grave not far from Delvin and it is said that if one gets a bit of the clay out of the grave and put it in a cup of hot milk and apply it to the toothache it will cure the ache.
    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
    Pauline Ennis
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Simons
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Delvin, Co. Westmeath