School: Damastown (roll number 12327)
- Location:
- Damastown, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Delia Wilson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 213
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- (continued from previous page)until they sweated. Then you would take the eggs home and eat them but they would have a very bitter taste.
The old people think that buttermilk and soot will cure the worst stomach ache.
They say that if you boil a plant called "The Virgin Flower" and give it to a mad dog he will be cured.
There are many other unusual cures and among them there is a cure for pains. A creeping plant grows in the hedges with pinkish blossoms. The stems and roots are red and when they are boiled there is a kind of milk left. If a person drinks this his pains will go.
The old people nearly always use herbs in these cures. They say they must be plucked at daybreak to insure success.
- Collector
- Peggy Maxwell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gerrardstown, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mrs Maxwell
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Gerrardstown, Co. Dublin
