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School: Robertson (roll number 13372)

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Ballintra, Co. Donegal
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Somhairle Mac Ádhaimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 143

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    It is a cure for whooping cough to go to a woman that has married a man with the same name as herself and get a piece of bread or a spoonful of sugar to eat.
    A cure for the toothache is to eat a double nut. Another cure for the toothache is to eat a double nut. Another cure is to go to a holy well and or down on your knees and put some of the water on your tooth, then bring some water home with you. Another cure is to let a frog put its paws on the sore tooth.
    Clay out of a priests grave mixed with fresh butter is a cure for Ring worm. A cure for mumps is to go through an animals legs three times.
    There was a man living in Mullinacross who had a cure for a sprain. He tied a string round the sprain and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Olive Dinsmore
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Inishfad, Co. Donegal