School: Scoil na mBráthar, Loch Garman (roll number 16742)

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   Consumption: Eat oysters or snails. When getting the snails the best are the ones which are found on the grass in the morning.

   

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2. Cures

   

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   Cure for Whooping Cough: Walk the child (sick) under an ass three times saying: 'In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Then give the ass a piece of bread to eat and give the crumbs that fall from the ass's mouth to the child to eat. Wart Cure: Gather seven white stones on the strand and rub the warts with them three times and then throw them away on a cross-roads and the warts will go away.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Doyle

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Wexford, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mr Byrne

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   66

   Address

   Wexford, Co. Wexford