School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)

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   down in a pot and boiled it.
   Then she took it up and put the juice of it into a bottle.
   After a week she took it down and drank it and she was cured in a few days.

   

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   “The "Craos Ghalar" as it is called is a disease of the throat the cure for which belongs to the seventh son in a family...”

   

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   The "Craos Ghalar" as it is called is a disease of the throat the cure for which belongs to the seventh son in a family. This gifted person is generally called to effect a cure. He breaths into the mouth of the child that has the sore throat. He dies this every day for a week and when that time elapses the patient is generally cured. Other people say that the child who has been born after the death of this father has this gift. Patrick Hennessy and "Piper" Daly who were born after their father's deaths are asked

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   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
            1. leigheasanna ar ghalair ar dhaoine
               1. craosghalar (~69)

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