School: Béal Átha Gearr

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1. Leigheasanna (continued)

   

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   To remove a ring from a pig's nose after killing it. The ring will cure a toothache by leaving it against the tooth. If you roast a potato and put it between two pieces of clean lint and put it to a sore throat it will cure it. An ivy leaf is able to draw the badness out of any sore. If you boil a gizzard of a hen in new milk and drink the milk it is supposed to cure a stomach ulcer.

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2. Piseoga

   

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   1) If you tie a red cloth to a cow's tail, when the cow calves the fairies can never take the milk or the butter.

   2) It is not lucky to take out the ashes on a Sunday morning because if you do you are throwing away

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