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School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)

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Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0074

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    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.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael P. Scanlon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrigans Upper, Co. Sligo