School: Ferbane (Convent)

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1. Local Cures

   

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   1. Measles : Get a white ass's milk and boil it. Then put butter and pepper on it and drink it.
   2. Warts : Get a black snail and let it creep on the warts. Then get a match and light it, and set fire to the snail, as fast as the snail dies, the warts decay away.
   3. Whooping Cough : Let the child with the Whooping Cough creep under a white horse three times making the sign of the cross on the forehead each time.
   4. Ring Worm : (a) The seventh son can cure a ring-worm by getting a worm and rubbing it on the ring-worm. Then put the insect on a thorn, and as fast as the worm dies the ring-worm goes away.
   b. A gold ring can cure the ring-worm by hold-ing it over the ring-worm, and making the sign of the Cross three times and by saying other prayers.
   5. Mumps : Get a green worm and kill it, then tie it up in a cloth and put it around your neck and say "Our Father" and three "Hail Marys" and "Glory Be to the Father" for nine mornings. Then bury the

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Aine Gilligan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gailinne, Co. Uíbh Fhailí

   Informant

   Mr Michael Gilligan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gailinne, Co. Uíbh Fhailí