School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)

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   “If a pregnant woman crossed a path then the misfortune to see a hare or meet him worse again her child would be born with a harelip...”

   

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   It is said that if the pregnant Mother disliked anyone very much the unborn babe will do the same when she comes to the use of reason or vice versa.

   

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   “Everybody knows the sure for the croas galar is the gander;s bill into the mouth nine mornings (both fasting) and fir the whooping cough the ferret's leavings.”

   

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   Everybody knows the sure for the croas galar is the gander's bill into the mouth nine mornings (both fasting) and for the whooping cough the ferret's leavings. The seventh son can cure evils or running sores and my Aunt got her toe bit off by a ravenous sow about 80 years ago for which a blood charm was set when it was bleeding profusely and it ceased bleeding + she recovered and I often heard that an uncle of mine had a charm for hunting away the rats to an enemy's house from his own townland.

   I heard my grandmother tell this story about 40 years ago she being then once seventy years that a baby was expected in a certain house this evening. A travelling man man called + asked if such a thing was about to happen and on being told that

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   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
            1. leigheasanna ar ghalair ar dhaoine
               1. craosghalar (~69)

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   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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   Múinteoir