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   Cures Sprains-Rub the sprained limbamd say a number of prayers. Worms-Write certain prayers on a paper and tie it around the sufferer's neck. Burns-sheep's suet and unsalted butter boiled with some herbs. Whooping cough-The milk that a ferret leaves is sad to cure whopping cough. Warts-the skin of a fresh bean rubbed to the wart. Headache-The snippings of hair of an unbaptist child born between Easter and Michaelmans bioled with some herbs. Mumps-you get an asses birdle and ruins ad put the birdle on the person that has mumps and you lead him three times around the pig house, and every time you go round you say "hurdles a mule cure this mumps". Burns-you have to get a man-keeper and lick him with your tongue three times, and the you have the cure for the burns. Stye-You get ten goose-berry thornes and point nine to the style and throw the tenth across your right shoulder. Wart-If you get a snail when you are not

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr G. Price

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Corgar, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mrs Mitchell

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   58

   Address

   Killaneen, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mrs Parke

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   58

   Address

   Callowhill, Co. Leitrim