School: Tuar an Fhíona, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Tooraneena, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Gearóid Ó Coindealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0647, Page 227
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- (continued from previous page)soap and sugar to it.
A person can cure a cut by rubbing salt to it.
If you found water in a hole in a rock accidentally it would cure warts.
By putting tobacco into a tooth which would often ache you would cure it.
If you had the whooping cough and if you asked a man with a white horse what was the best remedy he had, you could cure it by doing whatever he would tell you.
If a swelling came on your head it would go back if you put a penny to it.
When anyone has a sore tooth a very good remedy is to wash it with salt.
If a person had a bad cold the best way to find a remedy for it is to watch everyone passing the road during the day and if ten persons passed that day and the tenth person whatever remedy he would order to be done that is said to be the best remedy.
If a piece of timber is in your hand the best thing to do is to wet all around the piece of timber with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Teidhirs
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cahernaleague, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Buachaillí na Scoile
- Relation
- Not a relative
- Gender
- Male
