School: Loch gCarman (Christian Bros.)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Br. Ó Héilighe
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- (a) If a person had a toothache and of he put his hands on a dead priests face his toothache would be cured. (b) If a person buried knots of hay in the ground and when they wither the persons toothache would be gone.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- (c) Get a piece of paper and light it and pull in the smoke through your mouth, let it out through your nose and after a while the toothache will be gone.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- (d) Get a snail and stick it on a thorn-bush and when the snail has crawled off the bush the toothache will be gone.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Aidan Redmond
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Devereux
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Barntown, Co. Wexford