School: Liath-Mhuine
- Location:
- Leaffony, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Fhionnlaoich
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- Epilepsy or falling sickness is cured by getting three ribs of a dog's hair and burning it in the fire and then putting the ashes into a cup of water and giving it to the person to drink.The cure of a whitlow on the finger is to get a black cat without a white rib of hair in him and rub his tail to the effected spot and any person may do it and in a few days the cure is made.
- Collector
- Charles Gibson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leaffony, Co. Sligo