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School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's

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Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
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G. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 062

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    1. If there are seven sons in a family with out sisters and if there are worms out in the seventh sons hand he can cure ringworm.
    2. The Blood of a Digan or Walsh can cure the wild fire.
    3. By licking a lizard a person can cure a burn.
    4. The food left by a ferret will cure the whooping cough.
    5. If a person has a toothache and he put bluestone in it, it will be cured.
    6. If a person has a wart and he finds a black snail and rubs it on it will be cured. The snail must be left on a blackthorn bush to die.
    7. Dockers (Docks) will cure a nettle burn.
    8. By pointing gooseberry thorn nine times at a sty it will cure it.
    9. House leek will cure a born it is is boiled.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Concannon
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mr James Henzey
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 71
    Address
    Cappanalosset, Co. Offaly