School: Behey (roll number 8222)
- Location:
- Behy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Meadhbh, Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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- The person suffering from Toothache goes to the local forge, on the way he is not to speak a word to anybody. He asks the smith for three horse stumps for God’s sake. He returns home without speaking a word to any person that he meets. He then hammers the stumps into a bush “that never was planted. By the time he does this the toothache is gone.
- If the person with toothache is walking and comes accidentally on a stone with a hole in it in which there is water. If he rubs this water to the tooth and blesses himself he will be cured.
- A man, named William Morrow is supposed to hold the secret of making a plaster from herbs that can cure cancer if applied in timeSeveral men of Cashelard district have gone to him. Some were cured + others died. He lives in the Derries the next townland to Cashelard and is aged about sixy.