School: Mountbellew (roll number 12352)
- Location:
- Mountbellew, Co. Galway
- Teacher: William Hans
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0325
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- A cure for rash is to get up early three mornings and put a spit on the hearth and rub it of your face where the rash is.
If you get a cut on your foot let the dog lick it and it will get better.
The following are cures for teeth-aches. Sting your arm with a nettle or put a mustard plaster on your wrist.
If you had a headache you should go to a certain woman who will measure your head.
If you had a sore throat you should go to a man that never saw his father and let him blow into your mouth three times and it would get better.
A cure for rheumatism is to put a bunch of nettles down your back.
A cure for ringworm is to measure it three times with a gold ring.
A foxes tongue will take out a thorn.
Lie your small finger tightly with a sting to stop a nose-bleed.
If you have a whooping cough ask a man driving a white horse what would cure it and whatever he'd tell you to take it and the cough would get cured.
A cure for a burn is to spill ink on it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mamie Downey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Belderny South, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Hugh Crehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bovinion, Co. Galway
