School: Leithrinn
- Location:
- Lerhin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Labhradha
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- (continued from previous page)it on the scabs and they were cured. Long ago all the people had a plant growing on the top of the corner of the house. This plant was called "Buachailli Tighe" The people boiled this plant and eat it and it cured the yellow fever.
In those days many people could make charms. When a person broke his leg a person came who could make charms. He tied a woollen thread then times around the leg. He burnt the threads off then with a hot iron and the leg was cured. If a person had toothache and met a man riding on a white hours, if he asked him for a cure for toothache, the man on horse-back gave the other man a job to do, and if he done it the toothache would be cured.- Collector
- Labhrás Ó Domhnalláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shantallow, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Seán Ó Domhnalláin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shantallow, Co. Galway