School: Rooskey
- Location:
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Martin J. Casey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 223
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- There are many cures in my village, the following are some of these. The is a cure for a sore mouth and I will now describe it to you.
A posthumous child is said to have the cure of the sore mouth, this is a child who never saw his father.The person who has the sore mouth would go to the child who has the cure and have him breathe into his mouth three times and that per son would soon be cured from his disease.
here is also a cure for warts. The person who has the warts would get a bit of bacon and leave it on the warts for a few days and then take it off and bury it in the ground then when the meat has decayed the warts should be gone.
There is another cure for warts also. Whosoever has warts will prick a bit of each ward and put them into(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Mac Donagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Srah Lower, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Cawley
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Srah Lower, Co. Mayo
