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School: Coracrin

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Corracrin, Co. Monaghan
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E. Ní Dhuibhghlinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0960, Page 081

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0960, Page 081

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  2. Local Cures

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    There is a cure in Donagh graveyard of warts. There are nine pins in a trough and you take out the nine pins and jag each wart nine times and throw them back into the trough again.
    The cure the old people had for beelings was fresh butter and turnips
    And old cure for diabetes is to swallow a living frog
    When a ferret is being fed with milk and give some of the milk to the pataient is another cure for whooping cough.
    The cure for the toothache was to put a piece of saltpetre into it.
    And the cure for rheumatism was to put sulphur in theirs
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