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School: Muine Chonnalláin B.

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Bunnyconnellan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Lochnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 328

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    grey horse. Whatever he tells you to take, take it, and you will be cured. A cure for the head fever. The head of the person who has the head fever is measured from the back of the head to the tip of the nose. The person who has the cure squeezes the head with his hands and says some prayer. If the size of the head reduces the person who has the head fever will be cured.
    A cure to take out a thorn. If a person had a thorn in his finger and to get a foxes tongue and to put it to the thorn for one night it is said that the thorn will come out.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Muldoon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Thady Muldoon
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo