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School: Corlatty Carroll

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Corlattycarroll, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Jas. Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 241

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    Local Cures
    An old cure for the mumps
    When a person had the mumps asses winkers was put on his head and brought to a pig sty and put round it three times repeating the words Muck na muck na leck, leck,leck.
    Before starting and when finishing he makes the sign of the cross.
    A Cure of the evil
    Where there are seven sons or seven daughters born after each other the seventh son or daughter has the cure of the evil.
    A Cure of the dirty mouth
    A Child born that never saw its father has the
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English