School: Ráth na mBeach (roll number 17129)
- Location:
- Rathnamagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: R. Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 323
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“Long ago the people had cures of their own.”
Long ago people had cures of their own when they were sick. When a person had the mumps he would go into a pig's sty and say "Tug a do " three times. When a child had the chin cough some person would give a ferret more milk that we would be able to drink and the milk he would leave after him would be given to the child as a cure. When a person had a sore eye he would go to a man that never saw his father and that man would make the sign of the cross on the man's sore eye three times. When a person had a sty on his eye the cure for it was to get ten thorns of a gooseberry bush and point them at the sty. When a person had ringworm he would go to the seventh son of a family or to a man who never saw his father and get the sign of the cross made on it. When a person had a sore ankle he(continues on next page) - Collector
- Annie Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowgarve North, Co. Mayo
