School: Baile an tSratha (roll number 17014)

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1. Local Cures

   

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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.

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   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