School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)

Location:
Prison East, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 12_016

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  1. 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
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick James Moran
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Cregg, Co. Mayo