School: Druim Beag (roll number 9035)
- Location:
- Drumbeg, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Sinéad Bean de Faoite
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A cure for the mumps is to put a pair of donkey's winkers[?] on you and someone leads you away to water.
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A cure for the warts is to cut a potato in three and rub a black snail on them and rub the four on your warts and hang them up on a tree a when the snail is away your warts are away.
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A cure for the Whooping cough you must get a good lot of pieces of bread and eat one at night and one in the morning and when they are all finished you are better.- Collector
- Arthur Galbraith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 10
- Address
- An Droim Mór, Co. Dhún na nGall