School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Deagha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 365
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1. If you boiled a mouse in milk and drank the milk it would cure weak kidneys.
2. The tongue of a fox is supposed to take thorns out of peoples fingers.
3. There is a well in Abbey and a person was cured who had got a terrible fright.
4. To pass a child under a white horses belly is supposed to be a cure for whooping cough.
5. People who are born between twelve o'clock and two o'clock are supposed to be very nervous and are also supposed to see fairies.
Thomas Dillon, Glennamaddy
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- Collector
- Thomas Dillon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
