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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 55

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    your headache will cease.
    A cure for a stye on the eye is to point nine goosberry thorns to the stye and throw the tenth across your right shoulder.
    A cure for warts is if you are ever walking in a place you never were before and meet a hollow in a tree and water in it, sprinkle the water on the warts three times and when you awake next morning the warts will disappear.
    If you cut your finger and if it bleeds, put a cobweb on it and it is said to stop the blood.
    A cure for a sprained foot is to let the water of a waterfall fall on it for a few minutes and it will get better.
    Another cure for a sprained foot is to get a straining thread from a weaver and tie it around the sprain for a few days. When it is taken off the sprained foot is better.
    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
    Ellen Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Belleek, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mary Jane Halloran
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Occupation
    Domestic worker
    Address
    Belleek, Co. Mayo