School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 6293)

Location:
Tully More, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Bhrisleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1048, Page 120

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1048, Page 120

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  1. Long ago the people used to go out and search for a sort of matter which used to fall from the sky in many places after a night that there were Northern lights seen in the sky. This was said to be a cure for a burn.
    Long ago the people used to cut up a frog like a patch, and put it on the head of any person who would be getting bald.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. To save a sick person from bedsores - place a bundle of fresh rushes a bowl of cold water every morning under the bed.
    1 A cure for warts:- if you meet a snail accidently rub it on the warts and then kill it and bury it. When the snail is decayed the warts will have disappeared.
    2 If you accidently find a small hole of water in a rock rub the water in the name of the Father Son & Holy Ghost three times on the warts and they will go away.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Melly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Ardara, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Con Melly
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Ardara, Co. Donegal