School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)
- Location:
- Dring, Co. Longford
- Teacher: James Drum
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 135
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- A child born after his father's death has the cure of thrush. The food left behind by a ferret cures the mumps. The seventh son of a family has the cure of ring-worm. To cure mumps people used to put an ass's winkers on the suffering child, and the child used to go in and out three times to the pig-stye with it on him saying "Pigs, to ye the mumps".
Poultices of hot salt are good for curing mumps also.
People have a root called beet-root, and when it is sliced up and boiled and put to a swelling while it is hot it cures it.
A posthumous child has the cure of whooping cough. Any remedy he prescribes, no matter how simple, is supposed to cure. Another cure for whooping cough was for a person to look out for a man with a white horse, and any remedy this man would give was supposed to cure.
A cure for warts used to be for the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patricia Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghakilmore, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghakilmore, Co. Longford
