1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Naomh Muire, Carraig Thuathail

School: Naomh Muire, Carraig Thuathail (roll number 2050)

Location:
Carraig Thuathail, Co. Chorcaí
Teacher:
Criostóir Bheldon
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0384, Page 053

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0384, Page 053

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Naomh Muire, Carraig Thuathail
  2. XML Page 053
  3. XML “Local Cures”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Cures

    Share Share Post
    The juice of Lady's Ladder is a cure for warts.
    The juice of wild sage is good to purify the blood.
    A cure for toothache is to put a frog into your mouth and squeeze him with your teeth.
    Food left behind by a ferret is a cure for measles. On St Brigid's night if you put out a ribbon would cure a pain in your head or in your back. A cure for a burn is to get arc luachra and split him on your tongue and then lick the burn with your tongue.
    If you got a burn from nettle put a dock leaf up to it.
    Boil bread and put it up to
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Denis Cotter
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bun an Stó, Co. Chorcaí
    Informant
    Lawrence Cotter
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bun an Stó, Co. Chorcaí