School: Robertson (roll number 13372)
- Location:
- Ballintra, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Somhairle Mac Ádhaimh
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- It is a cure for whooping cough to go to a woman that has married a man with the same name as herself and get a piece of bread or a spoonful of sugar to eat. A cure for the toothache is to eat a double nut. Another cure for the toothache is to eat a double nut. Another cure is to go to a holy well and or down on your knees and put some of the water on your tooth, then bring some water home with you. Another cure is to let a frog put its paws on the sore tooth. Clay out of a priests grave mixed with fresh butter is a cure for Ring worm. A cure for mumps is to go through an animals legs three times. There was a man living in Mullinacross who had a cure for a sprain. He tied a string round the sprain and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Olive Dinsmore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Inishfad, Co. Donegal