School: Baile Dubh, (C.) (roll number 15541)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhriaghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 508
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- In olden times people used not go to doctors for remedies for their ailments, but to some person to give them remedies such as herbs mixed with lard for a burn.
For chilblains it is a splendid cure to take a bottle of forge water without anyone seeing you and rub it to the chilblains, and in a short time they will be gone.
To put a live frog into your mouth if you had a toothache would cure you.
If you had warts get a sop of straw and put a piece of rag around it.Then bury the rag and straw in the ground. When the straw and rag begin to decay the warts will disappear.
If a child had thrush, the seventh son could cure it, or if a posthumous boy or girl rose before sunrise and went three times into the child's mouth, the sick child would be cured after the third day.
- Collector
- Sheila Brackett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tooradoo, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Brackett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tooradoo, Co. Waterford
