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School: Baile an tSratha (roll number 17014)

Location:
Ballintra, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séarlus S. Ua Baoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 244

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    If a father and mother are of the same name their son would put the winkers of a donkey on a person’s head and lead him to a river and back. This is an old cure for the mumps.
    Roast chicken-weed on the fire. Put it up to the swelling and leave it on it for twenty hours. That is the foremost cure for a swelling.
    If you get a sting of a wasp split an onion and hold it to the sting. That is the foremost cure for a wasp sting.
    If a person gets a sting of a nettle rub a docken leaf to it and it will cure it at once.
    If you lick an "Airc Sléibhe" that you get in the turf bods you have the cure of a burn.
    If a person has a sore lip put the skin that of a docken root to it and it will cure it.
    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
    Maureen Mc Calliog
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Grahamstown, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr Michael Doherty
    Relation
    Not a relative
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballymagrorty, Co. Donegal