School: Drumgossatt (C.)
- Location:
- Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Áine Nic Ghráinne
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- (continued from previous page)to put a donkeys winkers on and to get a person to lead you into a pig house and say "hugat na mucna hegid na leicne, leicne cugat a mucna".
Consumption:- Drink three cupfulls of the water which, the blacksmith cools the hot iron in.
Black Mouth:- A child that never saw his father has the cure for the black mouth. This child must breath his breth on the child that has the black mouth.
Mote:- Mary Murray, Drumgossath, R.I.P rubbed salt on it and cured it.
Sneezing:- Say God bless you for fear the fairies might take you away.
A child born on whit Sunday will have to kill something in his hand, or if not he will kill someone when he gets big with a blow.
Mrs Mc Daniel, Derrylavan, Carrickmacross(continues on next page)
