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School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)

Location:
Riverstown, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 060

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    The person who has the cure of the ringworm must be the seventh consecutive son or daughter, and when he or she is born, a worm is put in the child's hand, and if the worm dies, this child has the cure of the ringworm.
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    Long ago the old people had many cures. When anyone had a sore eye he would bathe it in cold water or they would pluck ten thorns from a gooseberry bush and point nine of them at the sore eye and throw the other one away.
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