School: Banada (B.) (roll number 14304)
- Location:
- Banada, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sr. Mac Dhuarcáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0173, Page 031
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There are a few cures for the measles. If you drink nettle juice they go away very quickly. In olden times there was a cure for Leicneac. You had to go rounda pig three time and say Leicneac, Leicneac iwgad de muclac. There is a charm for ring worm. The seventh son or daughter can make it. There is a cure for warts. It is to get a black snail and tie him up on a bush until he withers away and when he is gone the wart will be gone. Long ago the old people used to write their name on the place where the wild fire was and they used to say it used to go then. The sure for the whooping(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Prionsias Ó Conaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortermone, Co. Sligo
