grow up ugly, the fairies send it back, for they love beauty above all
timings; and the fairy chiefs greatly desire a handsome mortal wife, so that a
handsome girl must be well guarded, or they will carry her off. The children
of such unions grow up beautiful and clever, but are also wild, reckless and
extravagant. They are known at once by the beauty of their eyes and hair,
and they have a magic fascination that no one can resist, and also a fairy gift
of music and song.
If a person is bitten by a dog, the dog must be killed, whether mad or
not, for it might become mad; then, so also would the person who had been
touched by the saliva of time animal.
If, by accident, you find the back tooth of a horse, carry it about with you
as long as you live, and you will never want money; but it must be found by
chance.
When a family has been carried off by fever, the house where they died
may be again inhabited with safety if a certain number of sheep are driven
in to sleep there for three nights.
An iron ring worn on the fourth finger was considered effective against
rheumatism by the Irish peasantry from ancient times.
Paralysis is cured by stroking, but many forms and mystic incantations
are also used during the process; and only certain persons have the power
in the hands that can effect a cure by the magic of the stroke.
The seed of docks tied to time left arm of a woman will prevent her
being barren.
A spoonful of aqua vitae sweetened with sugar, and a little grated bread
added, that it may not annoy time brain or the liver, will preserve from
lethargy and apoplexy and all cold diseases.
The juice of carrots boiled down is admirable for purifying time blood.
Clippings of the hair and nails of a child tied up in a linen cloth and
placed under the cradle will cure convulsions.
Tober Maire (Mary's well), near Dundalk, has a great reputation for cures.
And thousands used to visit it on Lady Day for weak eyesight, and the
lowness of heart. Nine times they must go round the well on their knees,
always westward. Then drink a cup of the water, and not only are they
cured of their ailment, but are as free from sin as time angels in heaven.
When children are pining away, they are supposed to be fairy-struck;
and the juice of twelve leaves of foxglove may be given: also in cases of
fever time same.
A bunch of mint tied round the wrist keeps off infection and disease.
There is a well near the Boyne where King James washed his sword after
time battle, and ever since time water has power to cure the king's evil.
When a seventh son is born, if an earth-worm is put into the infant's
hand and kept there till it dies, the child will have power to charm away all
diseases.
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