School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 175
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- Ailments Remedies
Cancer Clover
Jaundice Dandelion
'Flu' Peppermint
Cold Yarrow
It is said that if you have a "thrushed" face or mouth, you can be cured if you get a posthumous child to blow her breath on you.
If there are seven sons or daughters in a family all born after each other, the seventh one can rub for the "Evil" or ulcerated legs.
When a person has the "Mumps" it is said that she can be cured if she gets somebody, whose father and mother have the same surname to put a pair of horses "winkers" on the sick person. Then this person take the sick person to a river between two landlords' estates. The sick person crosses the river three times and drinks some of the water.
- Collector
- Eliza Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathdonnell, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs W. Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Rathdonnell, Co. Donegal
