School: Béal Átha na Sluagh (Buachaillí)

Location:
Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029, Page 0086

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  1. Local Cures
    In olden times the old people had different ways for curing sores. If anybody had a wart they put a snail or two and rub the snail on the wart and then hide the bacon and when the bacon would rot the wart would also rot.
    Another cure was a goose-berry thorn and this was used to cure a sty and the way they used to do it was stick the thorn in the sty and then burn the thorn. There is also another cure for a sty. Get a snail and rub the snail on the sty then stick the snail in a thorn bush.
    Told by
    Edward Rothwell
    Dunlo Street
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Edward Rothwell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dunlo Street, Co. Galway