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School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)

Location:
Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Staráid
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    The way the people cured whooping-cough long ago was, the person that had the whooping-cough had to crawl between a donkey's legs.
    The way to cure a "Stye" on your eye was to take nine "jags" of a gooseberry bush and put them on the "Stye" and then throw them away.
    The way to cure "warts" is to get a snail and rub it on the "warts" for nine mornings, and on the ninth morning you would put the snail on a bush where it cannot get to the ground, and keep it there till it withers.
    The way to cure indigestion was to
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Mc Geever
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Garrowcarry, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    J. Mc Geever
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Garrowcarry, Co. Donegal