School: Dún Ceann Fhaolaidh (roll number 15499)
- Location:
- Dunkineely, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seaghan Mac Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1038, Page 246
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- (continued from previous page)and predicted that his posterity should be sharp and “thrawing.”
The patient comes for the blood or sends some person for it. Mc Cahill pricks his hand and lets the blood flow on to fresh butter. The bloody butter is then placed on the “rose” and a cure eagerly waited.
- Butter Cure
Butter is obtained from a woman who is married to a husband of the same surname. The butter is placed on the wound and in nine days a cure should be evident. - Herbs
The secret of a herb cure is held by certain people but like all herb cures in this locality the secret is guarded religiously. - Foul mouth
This complaint of children is cured by the seventh son or by the breathing into the affected mouth by any child born posthumously.
