School: Summerville (roll number 622)
- Location:
- Summerville, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: John Burke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0652, Page 62
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- Local Cures.
To chew a frog's leg would cure a toothache.
To stick a gooseberry thorn in a sty would cure it.
Limewater would cure sores.
Salt and water and Easter water would cure a pain in the stomach.
Cobwebs would stop blood.
A dockleaf would cure the sting of a nettle.
To go under a mare ass three times would cure the whooping cough.
To rub a fasting spit to a wart for nine mornings after one another would cure it. Someone to buy them for 1/2d would take them away also.
A rub of a cluerag would cure the sting of a bee.
Cahill's blood would cure wild fire.
A blackberry leaf would cure a cut.
Cnasestán boiled is given(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Quann
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshoneen, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Patrick Quann
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Ballyshoneen, Co. Waterford
