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CBÉ 0554 (Part 3)

Volume: CBÉ 0554 (Part 3)

Date

1938

Collector

Seán Óg Ó Dubhda

Location

Cloghane, Co. Kerry

Titles (38)

1. Teine

Lore
2. Clay

Lore
3. Salann

Lore
4. Bainne

Lore
5. Im

Lore
6. Feoil

Lore
7. Gruaig

Lore
8. “Do chuala go gcuirtí maitheas (coc) na bó...”

Lore
9. “If a lump comes on a person without cause they make a poultice of the sparks from the fire on the hearth...”

Lore
10. Fuil

Lore
11. “If a person gets a fairy-stroke or a trouble without cause...”

Lore
12. “The blood of a black cat used to be for St Anthony's fire (teine Dia).”

Lore
13. “A fairy-stroke, the persons don't be theirself while they are in the trouble they are contrary.”

Lore
14. “The water in the forge that the smith dips the horseshoes into to cool them...”

Lore
15. “The dandelion is used as a cure for consumption or any inwardly trouble incurable to doctors.”

Lore
16. “There is a cure in the ashes after night because the good people used be throwing their spittles...”

Lore
17. “If a child was burned an all burned they'd get a cloth and dip it in urine...”

Lore
18. “Meacain na táth labha is used for boils.”

Lore
19. “Get dropping of a sheep and to boil it in new-milk...”

Lore
20. “The milk the ferrett would leave after him to give it...”

Lore
21. “Salt water is good for a person that would have...”

Lore
22. “Pig-dung and cob-webs are used for stopping blood.”

Lore
23. “For teine dhiadh to write their name around the sore...”

Lore
24. For Vomiting

Lore
25. Dogs

Lore
26. “For children that used have a sore head they used to get...”

Lore
27. “If you get the white clay in the bottom of a bog under the turf...”

Lore
28. “A child that never saw its father and to have the father be dead before it was born...”

Lore
29. “Butter fresh and without salt is carried to those that can cure...”

Lore
30. “If a child had the whooping cough and that the mother met a man driving...”

Lore
31. “There is a cure in a dog's tongue.”

Lore
32. “By rubbing the spittle nine mornings fasting to a wart, the wart will disappear.”

Lore
33. “Thee teeth of a hedgehog are used as a cure for tooth-ache.”

Lore
34. “A cure for a sty is to rub a gold coin to the swelling for nine mornings.”

Lore
35. “A fist-full of grass or clay thrown down on a person sleeping outside prevents fairy-stroke or sickness.”

Lore
36. “Straw is burned under the nose and belly of a cow that has builg and a circle of hay...”

Lore
37. “There is a belief that a child born with a caul will never be in want or never drown...”

Lore
38. “If a woman carrying a child goes into a churchyard, the child will be deformed when born.”

Lore

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0554, Page 135 — Archival Reference

The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0554, Page 135

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