School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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   have a cure for the pain in the back.

   A young baby that would have the thrush in its mouth the child's mouth would be all covered white like milk and to get a boy that never saw his father, to get him to blow his breath into the child's mouth for nine mornings and it would be clearing from the mouth after that.

   In olden times farmers used to kill their pigs for their own use. They would keep a big piece of bacon hanging up in the chimney for seven years for a cure and anyone that would come to them for a cut of green bacon for a lump on a man's neck or a boy's neck they would come miles away for that cure. They were called lumps in the old days but now they are called an absess.

   A cure for warts is to go into a house and steal a piece of meat and rub it to the warts for six mornings and bury the meat then and according as the meat is rotting away the warths warts are fading away.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick O' Dowd

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ceathrú an Mhóta, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Informant

   Mrs O' Donnell

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   76

   Address

   Cill Fhiacal, Co. Thiobraid Árann