School: Mount Stewart, Ceapach Chuinn
- Location:
- Mountstuart, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Chonaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0643, Page 192
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - The people of the olden times hd herbs to cure many diseases. They used to boil the herbs on May night and keep the juice to drink and they would not get sick during the year. If a person had Wildfire they would write their name around it and it would not spread but go back.
There was a charm to cure a toothache and a charm to stop blood. My grandmother could say the one to stop blood. There is a river near my home on the boundary of three townlands - Lisgriffin, Graigue and Mongally. There is a cure for warts in it.
If you would put out a band on St. Brigid's night to be blessed by the saint. There is a cure for headache in it. There were holy wells to cure many diseases.(continues on next page)
