School: Dernakesh (B)
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 382
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- (continued from previous page)John Lynch Dernakesh got a pencil when he was a baby and he tripped and the pencil went up in his nose. The blood came spoutting out and Mrs Wedlock was going up the road. Mrs Lynch knew she could stop the blood. She told her the colour of the child's hair and she stopped the blood instantly.
If you came across a black snail without thinking of it and rubbed it on a wart and throw the snail up on a bush and as the snail withers the wart withers.
Some people have the cure of the sprain. They rub their hand on the sprain three times and say a charm. The charm is.
From bone to bone,
From lath to lath,
In the name of Jesus cure that.
A boy or girl that never saw his father has the cure of the dirty mouth. The dirty mouth is a scab on the roof of the mouth. The person that cures it blows into the patients mouth three times.
- Collector
- Patrick Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
