School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 168
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- Watercress is an herb going in wet soil and is supposed to be a cure for a toothache.
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A Posthumous child has a special gift of curing a "fune" in a person's eye.
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A dog which licks a sore is supposed to heal it.
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To walk under an animal's legs such as a horse, mare, colt or such animals is said to cure an otherwise incurable disease, but if a person falls from a donkey's back is said to be incurable.
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Tea-Leaves when rubbed to a wisp or sore eye in the morning are supposed to cure it.
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A snail in a shell is supposed to cure a wart. It should be first rubbed well then placed on a blackthorn tree until it would again be used.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary J. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs E. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork