School: Seosamh Naomhtha (roll number 16640)
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Bráthair Naiti
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 111
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- XML “Cure for the Whooping-Cough”
- XML “Cure for Warts”
- XML “Cure for the Hiccups”
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- Get a hair out of the head of a child whose father died before it was born and put a small rib of it on to a piece of bread and jam and give it to a child to eat. That child will never take the whooping cough.
- Get ten pieces of knotted straw bury one of them. Then rub the other nine on the warts three times a day for three days. Then bury them and when they have rotted. The warts disappear.
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- Collector
- Patrick Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr P. Kerrigan
- Relation
- Not a relative
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 74
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
