School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)
- Location:
- Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Grannacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 552
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Leitir Bric
- XML Page 552
- XML “Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The cure for toothache is to get a frog and put him into your mouth until he screeches three times. Then let him go and the toothache goes also.
The cure for chincough is to get the milk the ferret leaves after him without. Give it to the person who has the chincough and then he gets alright.
Another cure for it is to get a live trout and let three drops out of him into your mouth. Let him into the river again alive and he brings the chincough.
The cure rheumatism is to kill a crane goose and hang her on the wall until she drops oil. Then rub it on the rheumatism and in a few months it will be cured.
The seventh son has a cure for ring worm. He rubs his hand on the ring-worm and in a week's time it will be cured. A child who never saw his father has(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Moyles
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Moyles
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Mayo
