School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Patrick
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- 1. Measles : Get a white ass's milk and boil it. Then put butter and pepper on it and drink it.
2. Warts : Get a black snail and let it creep on the warts. Then get a match and light it, and set fire to the snail, as fast as the snail dies, the warts decay away.
3. Whooping Cough : Let the child with the Whooping Cough creep under a white horse three times making the sign of the cross on the forehead each time.
4. Ring Worm : (a) The seventh son can cure a ring-worm by getting a worm and rubbing it on the ring-worm. Then put the insect on a thorn, and as fast as the worm dies the ring-worm goes away.
b. A gold ring can cure the ring-worm by hold-ing it over the ring-worm, and making the sign of the Cross three times and by saying other prayers.
5. Mumps : Get a green worm and kill it, then tie it up in a cloth and put it around your neck and say "Our Father" and three "Hail Marys" and "Glory Be to the Father" for nine mornings. Then bury the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Aine Gilligan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gallen, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Michael Gilligan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gallen, Co. Offaly