School: Lettercran (roll number 12049)
- Location:
- Lettercran, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Peadar S. Ó Duibhidhe
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Beating on your Heart—Put a cup of oatmeal to your heart and round your heart three times. Some of the meat will be eaten and a scone cake is made out of the remainder and this cake is eaten nine mornings in succession.
Pleurisy—For this disease, people used to be bleed.
Sore Side—Lift a stone and spit on it three times and throw it over your left shoulder.
Elf-shooting—1. This is a disease in cattle. Get yarrow and make nine balls of it and five them to the beast, three of a time.
2. Go to the four corners of a bog-hole and lift water out of each corner. Give the animal a drink from this water.
3. Put a hot coal to the animal’s nose and rub it down her back-bone to make her yield.
Sore-head—Measure your head with a ribbon or string.
