School: Cloonmagunnane (roll number 13114)
- Location:
- Cloonmagunnaun, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: T. Rogers
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The eyes are sometimes affected with stys and to prevent those from spreading over the eyes thorns of a gooseberry bush were used. Nine thorns are plucked, and one of the nine is thrown into the fire and for eight days the other eight thorns are pointed to the sty.
Everybody gets the whooping cough sometime or other and to cure it drink Donkey's Milk or eat the food left after a ferrit or the person who is affected gets their Godfather to put a hole in a penny and put it on a cord and put it on the person's neck and when they are better then they can take it off.
To cure Measles which are three days coming out on the skin three days on the skin and three days going back boil nettles and drink the Juice.
Ringworm is cureed by the seventh son who is called a Doctor or the seventh daughter he or she makes the sign of the cross over it and says some prayers. Warts come on the hands and feet and are cured by putting a snail in a rag and hanging it on a tree and according(continues on next page)
