School: Stravicnabo
- Location:
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Michael Kelly
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- (continued from previous page)every time you would put it on there would have to be a thorn left away until the nine are gone. If a girl was married and she never changed her name she has the cure for the chin cough and if she gave three presents to the child she would get better. If seven sons are born one after the other without a girl between, the seventh has the cure for the "evil" on the leg and a man named Peter Donohue Moher has the cure and a girl or boy that never saw their father have a cure.
- The cure for the toothache is take a mouth-ful of lamp-oil and stand with your back to the fire till it boils in your mouth. There are several cures for the chin-cough, to put the child through the cord of St Francis, asse's milk to get it for them to drink, another cure is give new milk to a ferret to drink some of it and what he leaves(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maeve Fay
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumnaveagh, Co. Cavan