School: Behymore
- Location:
- An Bheithigh Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Gallchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)"Rooc". Then to boil them with a half a glass of vinegar and a drop of milk. Then to give it to the horse as a dose and it will cure him. To put garlic in a calf's first milk and it will save him from the "blackleg". When a person has a sore eye get ten thorns of a red goose-berry bush and point them at the sore. When the last one is pointed throw it away and the eye will get better. If a person has a bad thorn a foxes tongue will extract it. If a person has a bad burn and lick a lizard three times it will heal the burn. If a person has a sprained ankle that is very swollen there is a very good cure which hardly anybody has. When it swells get get a spraining thread from the looms of a spinning wheel and put it round the ankle. Shake holy-water where it is sore and after three days it will heal. If a person has a sore throat onions, and salt and goose's laird in the persons own(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ned Rafter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Uí Thuathaláin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Martin Rafter
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
