School: Enfield
- Location:
- Enfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhomhnaill
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- XML “A Cure for a Sore Throat”
- XML “An Old Cure for Rheumatism”
- XML “A Cure for Ringworm on Cattle”
- XML “A Folk Tale”
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- (continued from previous page)person's neck who has the sore throat. Do this for three days and the sore throat will get better.
- A cure for rheumatism is get a potato and put it in your pocket and carry it in your pocket every place you go. As the potato withers the rheumatism is supposed to gradually leave you.
- A cure for ringworm on cattle is to get sulphar and paraffin oil, and mix them together. Then put the mixture on the cattle where the ringworm is. Do this three times a week and in a months time the ringworm will be gone.
- The father of a middle aged man in this district tells the following tale of a happening when he was a boy.
His father, one spring, ploughed a field for oats. One late spring evening, when the field was sown, and the father resting inside by the fire, the(continues on next page)