School: Tuar an Fhíona, Baile na Molt (roll number 8133)
- Location:
- Tooraneena, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0647, Page 128
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- (continued from previous page)and forwards three times under a grey mare.
If a person had a swelled neck it is said that if they saw a pig itching herself on a stone it would take the swelling away.
If a person had the whooping cough and met a man with a white horse and whatever cure he would give him it is said it would cure it.
If a person would not eat meat any St. Stephens Day it would save him from all the sickness of the year.
If a persons finger was bleeding it was an old custom to tie a cord at the back of the wound to stop the bleeding.
- Collector
- Cáit Breathnach
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynamult, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Máirgréad Barún
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynamult, Co. Waterford
