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School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)

Location:
Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Pádraig L. Mac Diarmada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1107, Page 126

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    In olden times people said that if you had warts to get a potatoe and rub it on the warts. When it is rubbed throw the potatoe after a hearse and the warts will be cured.
    They say that the cure for the mumps os to put the winkers of a horse on the person who has them. Then lead the person to a drinking hole where animals drink out of and let the person take a drink of water.
    A cure for the whooping-cough is to give a ferret milk and whatever it leaves give it to the child who has the whooping-cough. The seventh son or daughter have a cure.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Mc Hugh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    James Mc Hugh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal