Volume: CBÉ 0106

Date
1935
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0106, Page 332

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0106, Page 332

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    also famous for curing skin-disease. In order to get cured of any complaint, the well must be visited nine times, and every time the well is visited you must go around it nine times. There is a beaten path all around it. Hundred of people got cured of headaches and sore eyes by visiting this well. About three or four years ago there was a boy that had skin disease, and he was brought to several doctors but all was no use, so his grandmother brought him to the well nine times and "did the rounds" there as it is called. It was not long until he was completely cured, and he was never troubled with the same complaint afterwards. When people get cured they always leave something after them at the well. There are various things left
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    1935
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script