School: Coillte Craobhacha, Drumlish (roll number 15108)
- Location:
- Coillte Craobhacha, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 416
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- (continued from previous page)St Patrick's leaves will stop it from bleeding. If you got a splint under your nail put wax on it and it will come up. If you had consumption throw a live frog down your neck and you would be cured. If you had a pain in your stomach heat a plate and put it to it and your pain will go The seventh consecutive son of a family is gifted with the "cure of the evil" by rubbing his hand to the sore three times, Boiled nettles is good for the measles or if you met a man riding a white and brown horse ask him what to give the sick person, and what ever he commands do so. If a child is born after its father dying it will have the cure of the whooping cough, a cure for the warts(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Kehill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Seanmhullach, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Bernard Whitney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- An Seanmhullach, Co. an Longfoirt
