School: Ballinagore (C.) (roll number 16341)
- Location:
- Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Miss A. Heduan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 205
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- Whooping Cough is cured by eating bread made by the woman who has not changed her name in marriage.
Milk left behind by a ferret is another remedy. yet another cure is that of putting the patient three times between a donkeys legs. It may also be cured in the following manner, the sufferer walks along the road, till a person driving a white nosed horse is met. The afflicted one asks the driver what will cure the whooping cough and whatever he says is a certain cure.
Toothache is cured by the seventh son or daughter or by applying a live frog's paw.
Ringworn is cured by the seventh son or daughter
Warts are cured by bathing in the water found in a hollow tree or rock. They may also be got rid of by treating with the juice of the Milkworth. If a snail is found by accident and let crawl on the wart then prodded with a thorn and left on a whitethorn bush to wither(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Dugan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Peter Dugan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
