School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 178
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- In olden times a cure for a toothache was smoking. But anybody that did smoke it was no cure for him. They put the mouthpiece into the teeth and drew in the smoke.A cure for the whooping cough was to go over a donkey's back three times, and before doing so you had to give the donkey a piece of oat-bread. Then you had to take a bite of the bread out of the donkey's mouth and eat it. Another cure was to take a drink of mare's milk.A cure for mumps was to lead you to the horse pond with a horse's halter on, and take three sips of the water where the horses drank.A cure for a boil is to get "benweeds" and oat-meal and boil them. Then you have to put this poultice on your boil and it would be burst in the morningA cure for blindness in olden times was to get somebody to lick a frog's eye and then lick yours.Joseph Spratt, Newmills has cured several people for the "Evil." He is the seventh son of the family. He rubs with a silver piece and then the person(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Gordon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs T. Gordon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
