School: Tuar an Fhíona, Baile na Molt (roll number 8133)
- Location:
- Tooraneena, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0647, Page 129
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- Long ago people had many different cures.
If a person had a pain in his stomach it is said if he would spit under a stone it would go.
If your hand was cut and if you left the dog lick it it would be cured.
If your leg was cut it is said if you rubbed moss on it it would cure it.
It was an old custom for a headache to put the Brat Brighdhe around it.
Another cure for Wild Fire is to bleed a cat and rub the blood to it.
Another cure for warts is to rub your fasting spit to them.
A cramp in the calves is cured by making a knot out of twine three times over their back.
If you went to the well for spring water on a May morning before the sun rises it is a cure for many diseases.
- Collector
- Eilís Ní Chadhla
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynamult, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Maírín Breathnach
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
