School: Ros Inbhir (roll number 14501)
- Location:
- Rossinver, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Aoidh
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- (continued from previous page)supposed to be cured.
Various way are adopted for curing warts. Water on a stone without looking for it washes warts away also three drops of Holy Water and certain prayers are supposed to cure warts.
There are numbers of ceremonies and prayers in connection with the making of the cure of the jaundies. The person who makes it has to visit a certain spot at a certain time and pull certain herbs, and speak to nobody from the beginning of the cure till the end it; say certain prayers and visit the person whom they were making the cure and say prayers.
There is another belief that diseases will be cured by visiting a holy well and praying to whatever Saint it represents. The cures attributed to these holy wells were very extensive practically all known diseases are cured at these(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tawnaleck, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Francis Murphy
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Tawnaleck, Co. Leitrim
