School: Druim Beag (roll number 9035)
- Location:
- Drumbeg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sinéad Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1105, Page 155
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- A cure for warts is to put your hands into a hole in a rock where there is water then bring them out and let the water dry on them.IITo stop your nose from bleeding tie a string round your wee fingers.IIISometimes when you are walking you take a pain in your right side the cure for that is to kiss your right knee three times.IVIf your get a burn the cure to keep it from blistering is to put a cobweb over it.VIIf you get a bump the cure is to put something cold to it.
- The "evil" (a running sore) could be healed by a rub from a seventh son. The rubbing had to be done at whatever hour of the day or night the seventh son was born."Heart fever" a kind of palpitation was cured by "measuring". The person who had it was stretched out flat on the grass and measured by the person who had the cure.
- Informant
- Mrs Bell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Mondooey Middle, Co. Donegal
