School: Doire an Céise (C )
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)hang it up in a bush and as the snail withers the wart will go away.
Get a piece of tobbacco and chew it to cure the toothache.
To cure the Hiccough drink water or take salt and bless yourself three times.
- The seventh generation of a Blacksmith has the cure of the Rickets. This is how it is made.
The child is stretched on the anvil naked, then the blacksmith gives three light strokes on the back. Then one person stands on one side of the bellows and another person puts the child under the bellows and gives it to the other person, this they do three times. The child's shirt is washed in cold water from a south running stream and put on wet and cold. It cannot be taken off until the cure is made. Three visits have to be made to complete the cure.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Reilly
- Gender
- Female
