School: Móta Ghráinne Óige
- Location:
- Woodlawn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlís Ní Innse
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- (continued from previous page)A Cure for a Sore ThroatTo warm coarse salt and put it in flannel. Tie it around the throat and it will cure itA cure for a toothacheGet a bit of tobacco and put it down in the hole in the toothA Cure for ConvulsionsTo put the child in a bath of hot water and sponge the forehead with cold water.Asked by Maureen Mullen Killaan Woodlawn.
Got from Mrs. Mullen Killaan Woodlawn.A Cure for a wartGet a snail and rub it of the wart and put it on a thorn bush and while the snail would be dying the wart would get better.A Cure for a sty is a prod of a gooseberry thorn.A Cure for ear ache is black sheeps wool and dip it in sweet oilA Cure for the chin CoughIf you met a man with a white horse and ask him for a cure and whatever he would say would cure it. It is said that a child who never saw its(continues on next page)- Collector
- Lena Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hillswood, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hillswood, Co. Galway