School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- (continued from previous page)pointing eight gooseberry thorns to the eye and throwing the ninth thorn across your right shoulder and bless yourself.
If a person got a thorn in their foot in former times the cure they had for taking it out was to put the tongue of a fox on the thorn.
Water found in a hallowed stone is said to be a cure for warts.
In former times when a child had the chincough the people would put the child between an animals legs to be cured. - Toothaches were cured by chewing tobacco and putting it into the hole in the tooth. if a person had a wart it is said that if you met water in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael P. Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigans Upper, Co. Sligo