School: Aill
- Location:
- Ayle, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Donnabháin
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- (continued from previous page)"Pharcy" in horses was a disease which was also cured by charms. I have heard several stories of cures of this trouble by one Mr Kennedy Clonoulty Tipperary and Johnny Keating Ballydavid near Bansha Tipperary
Kennedy cured only on Friday Jack O'Neill of this district had a horse which suffered from Pharcy. He took the horse to Kennedy on Tuesday but the cure was not very effective. He went again on Friday and although the anumal was then in a bad state, his whole body souping and swollen, it was found hat the charm had worked an the horse was perfectly cured the following morning. All the souping matter had hardened into white crusts, scaling off the body.
Keating cured a valuable mare. The da of Hackler's Pride and the property of one Pat Quinlan Miltown, Sologhead, of Pharcy. He used unsalted butter; cut a slit in the animal's leg and put the unsalted butter into it. He then put(continues on next page)
