School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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- body covered with red spots. Apply a little of blood of a person called Walshe.
- Cure - Place penny (preferably a bucker's penny - a very large one - of which there were odd ones) on flesh just below extremity of breastbone. On penny put 3 pieces of the very small candles in used long ago. Light them & place tumbler over them lighting. After a time the candles would be extinguished. The force necessary to pull off the tumbler wd. raise the bone. This was done on 3 successive(continues on next page)
