School: Baile an Daingin (B) (roll number 1676)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus P. Ó Gríobhtha
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- (continued from previous page)it would cure it.
Cuts. If you had a cut on your knee and if you rubbed paraffin oil on it with a quill it would heal. If you put hogs lard on it it would heal it also.
Burns. If you rubbed olive oil on a burn or flour it would get alright.
Boils. If you had boil on your back and if you boiled onions and milk and drank the soup and ate the onions you would not get any other boil.
Corns. If you had a corn on your foot and if you burned it with a match you would not get a corn on that spot any more. If you cut it off with a knife it would get alright also.
Pimples. If you had a pimple on your face and rubbed sulphur on it it would go.
Diseases. If a pig had a disease and if you gave her salts and sulphur it would cure her.
The flue. If you had the flue and if you drank plenty of punch it would cure you.
Burns. If you rubbed the gall of a pig on it it would cure it.
- Collector
- Mark Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
