School: Ceapach Chuinn (B.) (roll number 1936)

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1. How Petticoat Loose was Banished

   

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   There was a priest long ago and he heard of all the destruction Petticoat Loose was doing at Carriglibein. So he decided to go out one night to banish her. He went out and the witch made an attempt to strangle him, but he took a bottle of Holy Water from his pocket and sprinkled it on her. Immediately she became powerless. He took her up and put her into a bottle and corked it and threw her into the Blackwater and she is now said to be floating in the Red Sea.

   

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2. Leigheasanna

   

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   To cure measles boil some donkeys manure in milk . Strain when boiled and then give it to the child who has the measles to drink. When he or she has it drank get a donkey and put the child under the donkey's belly and then put it over the donkey's back again.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John O' Driscoll

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   John O' Driscoll

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   58

   Occupation

   Ex-soldier

   Address

   Cappoquin, Co. Waterford