School: Clochar Muire, Tobar an Choire (roll number 12166)
- Location:
- Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Nioclás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 335
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- Cures.
(a) Whooping Cough:-
1 Take ferret's leavings or walk under a young foal.
2. Boil a mag-pie feathers and all and drink the soup.
3. Ask a man riding on a white horse what cure he has and whatever he says to take one should take it.
4. To put the child under a brier that is growing with each end in the ground.
(b) Ring-Worm:-
1 The seventh son or daughter follow-ing in succession has the cure of the ring worm provided the worm is placed in the child's hand when born.
(c) Foul Mouth:-
A Child that never saw his father has the cure of the foul mouth. He blows his breath on the person and he is cured.
Toothache:-
The four legs of a frog boiled in water and then to drink the soup.(continues on next page)
