School: Kilcalf, Tulach an Iarainn
- Location:
- Kilcalf Mountain, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Cáit Breannóc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0638, Page 137
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- In olden times people used to cure the diseases in different ways.
Toothache was cured by putting a frog into ones mouth three times and if he squealed the three times the toothache was cured.
Thrush was cured by a child that never saw its father.
Scaletina was cure by milk left after a ferret.
If a person had sore eyes and went to a holy well and have the true faith in the water they would be cured.
If you were going with the fairies or got a stroke by being out late at night , to pull a weed before the sun would rise would cure it.
The seventh son would be a doctor.
The cure for the whooping cough is to drink donkey's milk.
If a child was not able to walk, the child was brought to a blacksmith. The blacksmith(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Kilmore West, Co. Waterford
