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School: Faithche (Buachaillí)

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Fahy More, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0087, Page 280

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    put down the swelling.
    If you had a pain in your ear get a bit of black wool from a black sheep from between her two ears, and put it into your ear, and it will kill the pain. The best cure for the chin-cough is if you got a stone in a pot of potatoes, but not to know, that it would be in it, and wash the stone again, and put it down again in a burner, and boil the stone, and the water that would boil the stone, to drink it. Another cure for the chin-cough is if you met a man with a white horse, and ask him for a cure.
    The cure for a head-ache is to wet your forhead with cold water, or to dip your head in a bucket of cold water. Another cure for a
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine Geraghty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrynaraw, Co. Mayo