School: Ceapach an tSeagail
- Location:
- Cappataggle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Antoine Ó Monacháin
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- (continued from previous page)A child that is born on Whit Sunday is supposed not to be lucky.Collector: Bridie Jennings, Cappatagle.
Got From: Mrs. Egan Cappatagle Ballinasloe - In olden times when the people used to have the whooping cough they used to take the food that a ferrit would leave after him to be cured. To put a frog into a bottle was another cure for the whooping ocugh and every time and every time they would smell the drog and after a while the cough would be cured.
If a child never saw its father it has a cure for soar mouth. To cure a toothache never shave on a Sunday. If a child is born on Christmas morning it has a cure for some ailement. - The green thing that does be on a bog-whole is a cure for a burn. If a lump arose in your head if you put anything to it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymabilla, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymabilla, Co. Galway