School: Greenan's Cross (roll number 15687)
- Location:
- Leac Leibhre, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: J. Gavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 501
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- (continued from previous page)of a dead person's mouth with your own mouth.
The cure for the mumps is to put an asse's halter on the patient and bring him to a south running stream and jump him across the stream three times and say the three Holy names three times.
The cure for a wart is to get a snail and rub it on the wart and hang the snail on a bush and when the 'the' snail is withered the wart will go away.
The cure for the stye is to get ten thorns of a gooseberry bush and point the thorns at the stye and throw the tenth one away the person that points the thorns must have his father and mother(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Gavan
- Gender
- Male
