School: Cill Críosta
- Location:
- Kilchreest, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cléirigh
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- (continued from previous page)reducing swelling.
To drink the juice of nettles in the Spring time is a preventative against cancer.
The cure for wring worm is to put a ring of ink around it.
The cure for warts , if you meet a rock with a nook in the middle of it and to say "a cloch uisge ní ar do thóir a tháinig mé" and rub the water to the wart.
"Grundlas" pounded and mixed with unsalted butter would cure a wound and draw matter.
A decoration of the "male fern" is a cure for Bronchitis.
If a person had a sore ear to put black sheep's wool into it would cure it.
The seeds of the white poppies put on a bondage around the head are a cure for enducing sleep.
A person who has never seen his father has a cure for the "craos galar]".
