School: Kerrykeel (roll number 6849)
- Location:
- Carrowkeel, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1086, Page 208
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- (continued from previous page)night they were supplied with a bed or at least a "shake down" beside the fire.Another folk cure which I have heard of is "rubbing for the evil". The rubbing had to be done between sunset and sunrise. The person who rubbed prayed before rubbing the afflicted parts with his hands.
An important point in connection with this "cure" was that no payment should be made by the person looking for the cure to the person who applied the "cure".
The old man who told me about this cure told me that he had suffered from the disease himself and had been cured by the "rub". He told me the name of the man who had the "cure". I was very much surprised as I knew this man well (he died a couple of years ago) and had never before heard him mentioned in connection with "a cure for evil."
- Collector
- Séamus Mac Gabhann
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Oide\
- Informant
- Cormac Logue
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Ranny, Co. Donegal
