School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 666
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(4)The old people had many cures of their own. A cure for a toothache was, if the person that had it sneezed; and that another person said, "God bless us, God save us; and protect the living and the dead," then the person's toothache would be cured.A cure for a burn is to lick the stomach of an Irish lizard. If a person had the whooping cough, a cure is to crawl through a donkey's legs three times. Another cure is if the person's mother met a man on a white horse; and asked him for a cure for whooping cough, whatever he would say was supposed to cure it.If a person had a stye in his eye, a cure would be to rub his fasting spit three times to it.If cattle had red - water a herb called crane's beak is supposed to cure it. Dandelion leaves boiled are a cure for consumption.Bread out of boiled milk is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greenfield, Co. Cork
