School: Doire Leathan, Grange (roll number 14843)
- Location:
- Derrylehan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)The ends of the first two candles burned in a corp's house are said to cure the Rose (Erysipelas). Some put a corpse's finger into their mouths to cure tooth-ache. There is an image of a face cut in a stone at the entrance to Cuíleóg's graveyard in Ballintrillick. Anyone who suffers from tooth-ache and rubs his face on this image is sure to be cured if he has the right faith in it. Old bones which also curse tooth-ache are to be found in the same place. A cure for the mumps is to put the ass's halter on the person and lead him into the pig-sty or bring him to the three mearing waterBlue is used to cute the sing of a bee or a wasp. The hair of a dog is used to cure his bite. A curse for a corn is to rub washing soda on it. A cobweb cures a cut - stops the bleeding. I heard these from my father.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Shamhradhain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownamaddoo, Co. Sligo