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School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)

Location:
Culleens, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 18

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 18

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    Hiccough.
    If you have a hiccough and eat a grain of salt you will be cured.
    If you have a hiccough and if some person argues on you for about three minutes you shall be cured
    Chincough
    If you have a chincough and drink a drop of asses milk you will be cured of the chincough
    Warts
    may be cured by catching a snail and rubbing him of your wart when you have that done tie the snail to a bush and when he is dead your wart will be gone
    Stye
    If you have a stye on your eye and go to gooseberry bush and point nine berries to the stye one after another and then throw the berries away the stye will soon go
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dominick Kevany
    Gender
    Male