School: Davidstown (roll number 9682)
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Marion G. Brennan
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- Mountain ash boughs were scattered on the threshold on May Eve to deprive the fairies of their power to harm the butter or the baby.
- Collector
- Anna Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Templescoby, Co. Wexford
- Penny cups and fresh butter for sores.
Ivy leaves to stop bleeding.
Ivy leaves & vinegar, corns.
Fresh butter, honey & flour for boils.
Dried flour flannel for erysipelas.
Shingle:- They said that if a person with shingles was brought to a woman who did not change her name when married & she bled her own finger & made a ring on the person's body the shingles would not meet on the person & would not kill them.
For a weak stomach, burn a cabbage stump, take up the ashes & take a teaspoon full at a time - also the bark of a deal tree.
To clear the blood - salt & water drunk.
For a scald boil ivy leaves & rub the water on it.
Bathe chilblains in salt & water or put quickly into very hot potato water.
A whitlow is also cured by boiling potato water.
