School: An Cheapach, Askeaton
- Location:
- Cappagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Henry Mulligan
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- (continued from previous page)If a person is suffering from consumption the cure is to swallow a small living frog. If a person's breast bone was broken they cured it with a candle a penny and a tumbler. The penny was laid on the broken bone the candle laid on the penny, and the tumbler held over candle. When the candle would be dying out the bone would be getting better. The seventh son or daughter had healing powers. A posthumous child was to said be able to cure a disease called crease-collar
- Collector
- Nora Loughnane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derry, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John Loughnane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derry, Co. Limerick