School: Lappen (roll number 2020)
- Location:
- An Lapán, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Seán Ó Ruanadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 121
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- For a cold lie an onion on railing of bed when going to sleep.
For mumps if you were put under a donkey's stomach with a halter on you in three days you would be well again.
To drink milk that ferret was drinking was cure for whooping cough.
Also for whooping cough to wear a frog in the stocking around the neck.
Anyone who licks a man-keeper three times and blesses himself each time has the cure of the burn.
Those who never saw their father have the cure of the dirty mouth.
Long ago when people got cuts they put cobwebs on them.
If you come at water in a hole in stone without looking for it it is a cure for warts.
For warts get a black snail and rub it on the wart & hang up the snail on thorn. As snail weathers away wart goes away.
Gladony a plant like Flaggons is a cure for cows' kidney. You boil it and give her the water.
For mumps ride an ass across a drain three times.(continues on next page)
