School: Crois-Bhóthar
- Location:
- Poll an Chorraigiúin, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0306
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- 1. If there be a thorn in the hand or foot that cannot be taken out easily. Rub a black snail on a thorn and as he is decaying the thorn will come out through the wound which has become septic.
2. Put your spoon always through the bottom of an egg- shell when you have eaten an egg, otherwise your enemy could come and take the shell and fill it with dew and hang it on a thorn. As the shell is decaying so would you be fading away.
3. The 7th son or the 7th daughter has a cure for “worms” in children, if when be is born there are 10 worms collected, one then thrown away and the remaining 9 put into the child’s hand. If the worms die away while in the hand, the child will have the cure.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Príomhoide
