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School: Béal Átha Gearr

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Béal Átha Ghártha, Co. na Gaillimhe
Teacher:
Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0196

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    got a stone with water in it without looking for it to rub it on the wart and it would cure it.
    7) A cure for a sore ear is if you get a hook that has cut some corn and to heat it by the fire then to leave a little butter on the top of it and let it run into the sore ear and it will cure it.
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    One cure is if you got a drop of water resting in a stone and leave it on a wart it will cure it or if you got a snail without looking for it and hang it on a gooseberry bush it would cure a wart. Another one is if you met a man with a white horse on the road and ask him for a cure for the measles what ever he would tell you would cure the measles. A fasting spit will cure wid fire.
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    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Andrais Ó Ceallaigh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14