School: Druim Caoin
- Location:
- Drumkeen, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán A. Ó hArthaighe
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(1) Mumps = A person whose parents have the same surname may lead the person affected three times in succession across a stream flowing between the estates of two landlords.
(2) Whooping-cough :- Go three times underneath a donkey and eat oat meal on which it has breathed.
(3) Warts:- Cut a potato into ten parts. Rub the warts with nine of them and bury the ten where nobody will walk. Another one is to wash the warts with the blood of a pig.
(4) For evil:- Rubbing the part by the seventh son of the family.
(5) Toothache:- Refrain from combing the hair over Good Friday.
(6) Heart feaver:- By measuring the person affected.
(7) A Disease of cows locally known as shooting is supposed to be cured by measuring the animal affected. Fuar me na rudai seo o Mrs Marair
Noreen Bradley
Callan.- Collector
- Noreen Bradley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Callan, Co. Donegal