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- Title: Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (Illustrated)
- Author : Lady Gregory
- Release Date : January 19, 2013
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2949 KB
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“There is a saying in Irish, "An old woman without learning, it is she will be doing charms"; and I have told in "Poets and Dreamers" of old Bridget Ruane who came and gave me my first knowledge of the healing power of certain plants, some it seemed having a natural and some a mysterious power. And I said that she had "died last winter, and we may be sure that among the green herbs that cover her grave there are some that are good for every bone in the body and that are very good for a sore heart."