School: Cor na Péiste
- Location:
- Cornapaste, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Théinfhir
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- Cure of whooping-cough - a frog was caught and put into a vessel containing water. While the fit of coughing lasted the frog (in the vessel) was held underneath the mouth of the patient, that the complaint (disease) might be transferred to it.
To cure mumps the person who had this complaint might visit a neighbour - hospitable entertainment - tea, etc., was supposed to effect a cure.
Another cure was to cross a donkey's back and go underneath it three times in the name of the Holy Trinity.
Still another was to lead the patient on a donkey's halter to a river or stream where two townlands bordered each other and to cross and recross three times. This cure might be repeated daily. A person who caught a "man-keeper" - a newt, or lizard (alive) and licked its back three times could cure a burn by similarly licking it.
A person (man) who never saw his father had the cure of a "dirty mouth".
The cure of a sprain so common all over the(continues on next page)
