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School: Ceapach Chuinn (B.) (roll number 1936)

Location:
Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Proinnsias Ó Laoghaire
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    1. If you have a sore eye rub it with a wedding ring
    2. Hang out a piece of white linen on St Bridgets night and whenever you have an ache tie the linen around your head
    3. If a baby who has 'Thrush' is shown a cows tongue it will be cured
    4. if a person has varicose veins rub the place affected with boiled Heliotrope
    5. A cure for warts is to get a piece of elder and put nine cuts in it and bury it in a hole and according as the elder is rotting the warts will be cured
    [My father gave me these cures]
    Patrick Moynihan
    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
    Patrick Moynihan
    Gender
    Male