Scoil: Dring, Granard (uimhir rolla 14292)

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1. Local Cures

   

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   A child born after his father's death has the cure of thrush. The food left behind by a ferret cures the mumps. The seventh son of a family has the cure of ring-worm. To cure mumps people used to put an ass's winkers on the suffering child, and the child used to go in and out three times to the pig-stye with it on him saying "Pigs, to ye the mumps".
   Poultices of hot salt are good for curing mumps also.
   People have a root called beet-root, and when it is sliced up and boiled and put to a swelling while it is hot it cures it.
   A posthumous child has the cure of whooping cough. Any remedy he prescribes, no matter how simple, is supposed to cure. Another cure for whooping cough was for a person to look out for a man with a white horse, and any remedy this man would give was supposed to cure.
   A cure for warts used to be for the

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         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

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