School: Órán Mór (B) (roll number 4506)
- Location:
- Oranmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál Ó agus Máire Bean Uí Shuilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)If a person is suffering from a bad cough he can cure it by going to a spring well for fifteen consecutive mornings and taking a drink of water.
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______ ______If a child is suffering form whooping - cough and a ferret is procured and allowed to drink from a sauce of milk, then the milk that remains in the saucer will cure the child.
_____ ______If a person who is suffering from a severe cold goes out into a field and sees a frog and puts the frog into his pocket - the cold will improve and "die" when the frog dies.
______ ______The ordinary dock - leap nubbed to a burn from nettles relieves the pain.
______ ______To walk bore - footed in a bog takes out corns.
______ ______The seventh son of a family has a cure for ringworm.
______ ______The making of a ring of ink around wildfire prevents the weed fire from spreading and will cure it.
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