School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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- There is a prayer which when said for a bleeding nose, stops the flow of blood. This is it.
My Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ went to the river Jordan to be baptised.
Sweet was the water, good was the water.
In the name of Jesus stop the blood. - Michael Keogh Ballycadden, Enfield and Brigid Cowley the Moy, have this cure. These person rub their own spittle to the inflamed parts, while they pray over them.
A cure for a burn is to run the part you burned to your hair or put bread soda on it.
A cure for a sting of a nettle is to wet a butter dalkey and rub it to the sting saying dalkey, dalkey in and out take(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Nelson
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Nelson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath