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 408
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Collected By : -Maireat Ni Jallacobair Rathnamag. Brossmolina, Entered on: -9 at la mi Canar 1939Long ago the people didn’t want to buy any stuff for cures, because they made the “meds” themselves. If a person had, “leicneac” he would go out to the pigs stable and say, “muic muiere e an leicneac.” Then, he would be cured.
If a person had a sty in his eye, he would get ten thorns off a goose-berry bush. Then, he would point nine of them at the sty, and throw away the tenth one. The sty would be cured.
If a child had the chin cough, someone would go, and the first man he met riding on a white horse, he would say, “give me a cure for the chin cough.” Then, whatever the man would say, they would give it to the child, and he would get cured.
When a person had a pain in his head, he would get it measured by some old man or woman.
- Collector
- Máiread Ní Gallachobhair
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathnamagh, Co. Mayo
