School: Clún na Gaoithe (roll number 8740)
- Location:
- Cloongee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Héaráin
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- (continued from previous page)plant and rubbed on the head the headache will soon go.Ring Worm.
The sevent son of a family can cure the ring worm by leaving his hand on it.Pain in Back.
There is a cure in the feet or hands of a sevent daughter for a pain in the back.Calac.
If a person got an eel's skin and tied it round the wrist where heWorms.
This is how they used to cure worms. When they used to get up in the morning and before they would eat anything the person the worms were in would spit on them and they thought they would cure themA sprained-ankle.
If a person sprained his ankle he would get spraining thread from the weaver and tie it round his ankle and hold his ankle under a water fall and it would cure it.Fever.
The person thought that he the seventh son of a family would cure fever. That is the seventh son of a family would have his hand on the person's head(continues on next page)
