School: Corlea
- Location:
- Corlea, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mearáin
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- (continued from previous page)If the god-parents of the child buy a red ribbon and tie it around the child's neck.
Another cure for the whooping cough if you meet a man riding a piebald horse say" you who ride on a piebald horse whats your cure for the whooping cough."
Cure for ringworm is to point gold at it.
The cure for mumps is to put a halter on the patient and bring him round the pig sty three times.
The cure for a toothache is to go to a graveyard and get a dead persons tooth and rub it to the affected one. This will relieve the pain and you will never have a toothache again. The cure for corns is to put a nail in the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Finnegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corlea, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Philip Finnegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Corlea, Co. Cavan