School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 086
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- (continued from previous page)If two people of the one name get married the bread that they do not eat at meal times is supposed to cure a very bad cough.
There is a weed growing out in the fields. When it is broken a white thing like milk runs out of it. If anyone had a wart and put it to it it is supposed to cure the wart.
Three drops of blood out of a black cats tail is a cure for the wild fire.(continues on next page)
- If a person had corns it would cure them if the person took off his boots in a bog and kept his feet in the water until the corns got soft. Then the corn would fall out.
The milk that a ferret leaves is a cure for a bad cough.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Máire Ní Nualláin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crannagh, Co. Laois
- For a sore throat roasted salt in a stocking and put around the neck in a cure.
Chillblains rubbed with the water remaining(continues on next page)
