School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- The old people had belief in getting ferrits leavings to cure chin cough. To procure it the ferrit gets milk to drink in a basin, when he drinks his fill what he leaves after him in the basin is given to the person to drink but the person must not know that it has been left or its no good.
Another belief is to steal a small drop of milk from a neighbours goat or donkey and give it to them.
Another belief is if a man is mounted on a white horse to ask him for a cure for the chin cough and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick James Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cregg, Co. Mayo