School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 157
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- with a nail. Then put salt and oat meal to it. In a short time the horse will be better.
A cure for warts.
When you see the new moon stoop down without removing your gaze off the moon and lift what ever you meet first and say "what I see may grow and what I rub may go." While the moon is getting bigger the warts will be getting smaller.
A cure for a calf with a colic.
If a calf has a colic get soot and mix it with turpentine put it into a bottle and give it to the calf. Soot and buttermilk does equally well. The soot absorbs the gases.
A cure for a bleeding cut.
If you have a bleeding cut get a cob-web leave it on the cut and the cut will stop bleeding
A cure for a calf with colic.
If a half has colic get a piece of fat bacon about the size of an egg, and put it down his throat(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Michael Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloverhill or Corglass, Co. Leitrim
