School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Moyvoughly, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhlannagáin
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- If you ever see a human skull with teeth in it thrown up among the stuff out of a freshly dug grave pick it up and grip one of the teeth in your own hand and pull it. After doing that you shall never have a toothache again.
A rub of the hand of a fully qualified seventh son down your jaw will cure a toothache as well as ring-worm, wild fire and all skin diseases.
In order to become fully qualified to cure everything the seventh son must have grasped the male and female worms when a baby.
A one-worm seventh son can only cure ring-worm, his power ends at that. There is a seventh son in Offaly who can almost cure every ailment in man and beast, he is fully qualified.
If you ever have warts on your hands rub them with a black snail and stick the snail on the thorn on a goose-berry bush, the warts will soon disappear. A clean cobweb is a very good thing to place on a cut, so is(continues on next page)