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1. Local Cures - The Dirty Mouth

   

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   A child that never saw his father or mother has the cure of the dirty mouth. The person that has the cure breaths three times for three mornings in the mouth of the person who has the disease. After the third morning the person is cured.

   

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2. Local Cures - The Burn

   

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   Mary Farrelly has the cure of the burn. She lives in Corfad on the road to Cross Chapel. First she gets two or three pounds of suet and fries it on the pan. Then she goes out to a field where the sheep are grazing and gathers the sheeps' marbles and brings them in. Then she puts them on the pan and mixes them with the suet She leaves them on the fire for an hour. Then she strains the juice out of it into a cup she has for that purpose. She says certain prayers over the cup and then spills holy water into the cup. Then she sends the cup to the person that has the burn and rubs the juice on the burn, three of four times a day until the disease is better. Then the

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)
            1. medicine for human sicknesses
               1. burns (~116)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Gillic

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cloghergoole, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Phil Gillic

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cloghergoole, Co. Cavan