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School: Móta Ghráinne Óige

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Woodlawn, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlís Ní Innse
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0248

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    with a hollow and holding water in it dip the wart's into it three times.
    12. If a child has the whooping-cough and it is swong under a donkey three times it is a cure for the whooping.
    13. A white asse's milk is good for the whooping cough.
    14. A cure for heart disase, get a cup of oaten meal and level it off with a knife and cover it with a clean cloth, and leave it up against the persons heart three times and take off the cloth and if the cup is half filled the persons heart is bad. The remainder of the meal is put on the pan and is made into griddle cakes and the person that has the bad heart eats them and he gets cured.
    15. To cure cancer outside on your body you have to go to the person that has the cure. He makes up a plaster of herbs and clay and puts it on the sore. It wont stick to any sore except cancer. The person suffers great pain but he cannot take it off until it falls off. Then the sore comes out. Nobody knows the cure except the person that has the cure.
    16. Ringworm
    Dissolve a lump of washing soda in paraffin oil and rub on the effected parts, persist
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Willie Mullen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killaan, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Mullen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killaan, Co. Galway