School: Seamar
- Location:
- Shammerdoo, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Loideáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 17
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- (continued from previous page)would tell you if the book of your head was open. He always made the cure on Mondays and Thursdays. A man who had this cure always passed it on to a woman and she when dying passed it on to a man and so on. No fee was taken but a present of tobacco or some such thing was given.
There were people also for taking dust out of a person's eye. This was done by a charmed person who took a mouthful of cold water and after saying certain prayers he would put it on a [?] and show you the dust. This cure was always done on Mondays and Thursdays.
Last year (1937) a woman in this village died and she was noted for lifting the spool of the breast. She did this by means of a half pint drinking glass.
There is a man called Thomas Keane who lives about a mile from this school and he makes a wonderful ointment of herbs and resen. Nobody knows what herbs are used as it is a family(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Lynskey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Lynskey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
