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Gulsa shell and kapp
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Used in the traditional treatment of jaundice. Gulsa shell and kapp; Used in the curing of the gulsa (jaundice). Usually, water was taken from a stream in a kapp (bowl), infused with gulsa girse, and administered to the sufferer with the "shell" (which in this case is actually a bone). These belonged to Catherine Nisbet, who found the "shell" at Djupidall, near Cunnister, having visualised the place to find it in a dream. She was from Unkadal, Kirkabister. Used on one of her eight children, who were born between 1843 and '57. These objects were last used in 1912, at Sellafirth, on Kitty Tulloch, Old Schoolhouse.
Used in the traditional treatment of jaundice. Gulsa shell and kapp; Used in the curing of the gulsa (jaundice). Usually, water was taken from a stream in a kapp (bowl), infused with gulsa girse, and administered to the sufferer with the "shell" (which in this case is actually a bone). These belonged to Catherine Nisbet, who found the "shell" at Djupidall, near Cunnister, having visualised the place to find it in a dream. She was from Unkadal, Kirkabister. Used on one of her eight children, who were born between 1843 and '57. These objects were last used in 1912, at Sellafirth, on Kitty Tulloch, Old Schoolhouse.
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