School: Croisín (Crusheen) (B. & C.)
- Location:
- Crusheen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Bruaideadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593B, Page 03_017
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Cures 18-3-'38
The old people had a great amount of cures .They almost had one for everything which came upon their animals and themselves. There are several diseases which people get such as the whooping cough .The people had many cures for that ,if they met a man with a grey horse, and when they would ask the cure no matter what he should say they would they would give it to the child.They also had another cure ,they were ,there was milk given to a ferret ,of course he would not drink it all, whatever he would leave it would be boiled for the child, but the child would not know that ,if he did he would not drink(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pilimína Ní Chathail
- Gender
- Female
