School: Cill Cholmáin, Shanagolden (roll number 4014)
- Location:
- Kilcolman, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chriobáin
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- (continued from previous page)left breathe into the mouth of the person each day for nine days. A ferrets leavings would also cure this disease. Another cure was to let a boy who never saw his father put his fingers in top of the tongue of the sick person. Another cure for the chin cough was to meet a man with a grey horse and ask him what would cure this disease. What ever he'd say would cure it.
The cure for a pain in the back was to lie on the face and let the seventh child of a family walk above on the back which would cure it.
