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School: An Teampoll Geal, Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 3549)

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Whitechurch, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Liam Ó Faoláin
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    “Tháinig Ciarraigheach go dtí an Éaglais ar a phaigh lae ag baint phrataí.”

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    3. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. spalpeens (~14)
    Language
    Irish
    Collector
    Máire Ní Cobhthaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Keereen Lower, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Risteard Ó Ceallaig
    Relation
    Not a relative
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Woodhouse, Co. Waterford

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    “It is said that if you had a toothache and you put a frog into a mouth and left him there until "screeched three times you would be cured immediately.”

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    It is said that if you had a toothache and you put a frog into a mouth and left him there until "screeched three times you would be cured immediately.
    If you had a wart and if you would find a snail in the dew of the morning and put him on a black thorn bush until he would wither then to rub him to the wart it would die away.
    There is also a cure in the grass that people gather May night. if it is boiled in new milk. People say that if you let the vessel that the grass was in on the ground while drinking it...
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