School: Más an Easa (B.) (roll number 14775)
- Location:
- Masiness, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Prionnseas Mac Carraigh
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- (continued from previous page)was supposed to cure toothache.
5. A tooth taken from a jaw in the graveyard was believed to prevent toothache.
6. Clay taken from graves of three priests was supposed to cure toothache also.
7. What is known as "Peter's Prayer" is still recited as a cure for toothache. As follows -
Bhí Peader in a shuidhe ar leac sleamhnan, lom,
Thainig Iosa os a chionn,
A Pheadair caidé atá ort?
A Iosa, mo fhiacla atá tinn.
'Eirig, a Pheadair, agus bíodh slán,
Pian na bíonn in do fhiachla go bráth"
8. Cures for Warts,
a) Rub the wart on a snail, stick the snail on a thorn. When the snail dies, the wart dies.
b) Get a joint of a stalk of corn, and get a joint for each wart. Put the joints in a parcel, keep one and throw it over your head. Then bless yourself and the warts will die.
d) If you come to a pool or hole of water in a stone or rock which you have never seen before and wash the warts in this water they will disappear.
(This also was believed to cure sore eyes)(continues on next page)
