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 127
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- People say that a good cure for the toothache is to take salt and put it in the tooth. Whatever a ferret leaves behind of it food it is said to be a cure for thrush.
If sore eyes are washed with black tea people say it is a cure.
People say that a cure for boils is to out soap and sugar on them.
If there is a hole in a tree and water in it anyone having warts wash them with the water it will cure them. Another cure for warts is to get a potato and cut it in halves, throw one half away and rub the warts with the other half the warts will go away.
- Collector
- Margaret Mc Glinchey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Edward Mc Glinchey
- Gender
- Male
