School: St Davaddog's, Tamney
- Location:
- Tawny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 437
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- For Fever they boiled oaten meal seeds they were called sourings [?] and given to them to eat.For mumps put Donkey's winkers on the person who would have the mumps and lead him to the water as a Donkey. Make him Drink a drop of water three times. You would have to take him three Monday mornings one after another.For quinsy they would eat toasted potatoes and butter but they must sit beside a great big fire until the sweat would come out on them, then they would get a home spun stocking and roll it round their neck and go to bed & then would be better in the morning.For a cow who would be shot by the fairies they would get the soot of nine pots from certain houses and roll it in a ball of meal and put it in her.For a horse that would have gangereen they would get a poultice of muggart and put it where the disease was. It is a sort of green leaf that grows in certain parts,.
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- Sally Gibbons
- Gender
- Female
