School: Irishtown
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Margaret McNally
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 135
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Cuts
If you have a cut, let a dog lick it and it will heal.
To stop blood
If you have a bleeding hand get a blind man's buff, also called a cáise púca, open it and put the thing that's inside in it, on the cut and it will stop bleeding.
To stop blood
There is a weed called a slánldus (slánlus?) and if you have a bleeding hand put the weed in your mouth and chew it, put it on the cut and it will stop bleeding.
A sting of a nettle
Pull a dock leaf and put it on the burn and say dock leaf, dock leaf cure a nettle, then Ill give you bread and tea
Upstarts
Pull the leaf off a dandelion and squeeze the milk out of it on the up starts and they will go away
- Collector
- John Drew
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lakingstown, Co. Westmeath
