School: Tullyvin
- Location:
- Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Feeney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 362
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- (continued from previous page)the burn supplies everything but the secret.
Sore Throat; Let a hairy horse crawl around your neck ( a hairy horse is a grub covered with brown hair & found on the ground in Summer)
Heat about half a pound of salt and put it in a stocking and put around your neck.
Toothache; For a man to sacrifice not to shave himself on a Sunday morning. To keep from eating fresh meat meat on Wednesday. To melt a piece of a wax candle and put it in the ailing tooth.
Warts; Put your hands in the water that a blacksmith cools the iron with. Get a potato and cut it in two(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Joseph Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Paddy Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumnagran, Co. Cavan
