School: Carraigíní (Carrigans)
- Location:
- Carrigans, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire E. Ní Stiopháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1108, Page 84
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- (continued from previous page)such as moles or bitrh-marks.
If you let a dog lick ringworm it will disappear.
For mumps it is supposed to cure this by walking under a horse or donkey. Sometimes the patient is led to running water with a donkey's halter on you.
It is only some people who have power to cure in this way. Another cure for the mumps is to breathe a frog's breath.
When people have measles, they get nettle tea to drink to put out the spots. This is made by boiling the nettles.
