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The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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  1. (no title)

    “Long ago foxes tongue was used to draw a thorn.”

    CBÉS 0050

    Mary Kemple

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    “A foxes tongue would draw a thorn ...”

    CBÉS 0050

    Michael Slattery

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  3. Cures - Fox's Tongue

    CBÉS 0095

    Micheál Ó Gealbháin, Mrs Garry

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  4. Cure for Thorn in Any Part of the Body

    CBÉS 0141

    Joseph Clarke, Martin Clarke

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  5. How Anthony Kearney Got the Thorn Cure

    CBÉS 0141

    Joseph Clarke, Martin Clarke

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  6. Local Cures - Thorns etc.

    CBÉS 0161

    R. Foley

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  7. Local Cures - Thorn in Finger

    CBÉS 0169

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    “It is said that the tongue of a fox would take the thorn out of one's hand.”

    CBÉS 0171

    Bertie Boyers

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  9. (no title)

    “The tongue of a weasel would take a thorn out of one's hand.”

    CBÉS 0171

    Desmond Boyers

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  10. The Cure of the Thorn

    CBÉS 0204

    Kathleen Flynn

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  11. Local Cures - To Take Out Thorn

    CBÉS 0226

    John Maxwell

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  12. (no title)

    “A fox's tongue was used to draw out a thorn or a chip.”

    CBÉS 0471

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  13. Cures - To Extract a Thorn

    CBÉS 0596

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  14. Thorn in the Hand

    CBÉS 0686

    Margaret Powderly, Mary B. Kelly

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  15. Thorn In The Hand

    CBÉS 0700

    Louis Smith

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  16. Thorn

    CBÉS 0700

    Mrs Mc Allen, R. Mc Allen

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  17. Thorn

    CBÉS 0704

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  18. Thorns

    CBÉS 0704

    James Smyth, Nancy Smyth

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  19. Leigheas le haghaidh Deilge

    CBÉS 0731

    Caitlin Ní Greacháin

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  20. Local Cures - Cure of the Thorn

    CBÉS 0738

    Gretta Sargent

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