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Irish Wives Tales, Superstitions Folklore
The dead can cure the living
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Wives Tales
Created: 19 August 2019
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A dead hand is believed to be a cure for all diseases. Many times sick people were brought to a house where a corpse was laid out, so that the hand of the dead might be laid on them.