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School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh (roll number 10387)

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Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Néill
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  1. Local Cures

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    Wild fire
    Wild fire comes in a patch and it would spread all over the body. If you wrote your name around it with ink it would disappear
    Cure for a toothache
    The cure old people used to have for a toothache is to rub it with the lower jaw of a porcupine and to sow it on to one of their inside garments and as long as it would remain there the tooth would not cause trouble again
    Cure for Chin cough
    Old people say if you dragged a child under a donkeys belly three times the chin cough would be cured
    Cure for ring-worm
    The cure some old people used to have for ring-worm was to get a hoop and to scrape it with the hoop
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Michael Brunnock
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    49
    Address
    Doon, Co. Tipperary