School: Rashina, Athlone
- Location:
- Rashinagh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)James Nally of Reynaun, in the Parish of Milane and Ballinhown had the cure of warts in cattle and horses. The owner of the affected animal had to get oaten straws. He broke them into nine equal parts and gave them to the owner to bury six feet in the ground in a secret place. According as the straws wasted away so did the warts.
A snail impaled on a thorn of a whitethorn, after being rubbed on a wart, wasted away, so did the wart.
Two persons of the one name married can cure whooping cough. They give some stale wheaten bread to the child that has the whooping cough. If the child is too young to be able to eat the bread, then the bread is boiled in milk and the milk given to the child.The lock of hair of a child that never saw his father, put round the neck of the child with whooping cough can also cure it.
A child that never saw his father can cure thrush by rubbing spittle out of his mouth on the mouth of the child with the thrush.
