School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)

On this page

1. Local Cures (continued)

   

   Share Share Post

   (continued from previous page)

   whooping cough would be cured.
   The following is another way in which it was cured:- The person who had the sickness would be lifted across an asse's back three times and each time he would come back under the asse's belly.
   It was also believed that if you bit a frog three times it would cure a toothache.
   In the townland of Killalee there is a large square rock in Larrigy's fied. On either side there is a hold and over each hold there is a round ston and it is believed that it would cure a headache if you put your head into one of these holes and said an "Our Father and three Hail Marys".
   A common cure for warts is as follows:- Get nine thorns from a briar and hold them all together between your thumb and first finger and point them at the warts three times. Then put the thorns in a small box and hide the box and the warts will disappear after three days. Most of these old cures were genuine and perhaps the mixtures which the old people had are some which the medical men use for some cures, when doctors were not so skilled in medical science.

   (continues on next page)

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Frank Reid

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killalea, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Daniel Reid

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   45

   Address

   Killalea, Co. Westmeath