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School: Cortubber

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Cortober, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Mary A. Burke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 001

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  3. XML “Cures”
  4. XML “A Charm”

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  1. Cures

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
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    English

  2. A Charm

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    I heard people say that too if you got up on a May Day morning and washed your hands three times in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost that you'd be able to unfasten any knot that you'd meet.
    I heard an old woman boast once that she owed her skill in undoing the knots in the wool to this cure as she told me that she never missed a May Day
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