School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 319
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- Tooth-Ache:- To cure a tooth-ache put a pea of garlic on the wrist and tie a tight bandage over it. Another cure is for the person suffering from toothache topull a tooth out off a human skull with his own teeth. Another cure is to cut the tongue out of a frog and rub it to the bad tooth. This was supposed to cure the tooth-ache.
Thrush:- Breath of Posthumous child
Whoopng or Chin Cough:-
I A red ribbon bought by the child's godfather and tied around the neck.
II The food left over by a ferret was supposed to cure whooping cough
III To pass the child under a donkey's stomach three times.
IV Licking a "man-keeper's" stomach.
V A man and woman of the same name who are married to cut a piece of bread and give it to the child to eat
Warts:-
I To cure warts get a snail and rub it to the wart. Then hang the snail on a bush and according as the snail withers, the wart also withers.
II The water in a hole in a stone will cure warts if it is applied to the wart on nine mornings.
III Steal a piece of bacon and rub it to the wart and then bury the bacon unknown to anyone.
IV Forge water is also supposed to cure warts.
Thorn:- To keep a thorn from festering bite the top of the thron when you get it out.
The seventh child, either boy or girl is supposed to(continues on next page)
