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School: Aughaclay (roll number 13140)

Location:
Templemoyle, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seán Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1124, Page 115

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  1. Local Cures

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    Here are a few cures which I heard in this locality.
    If you have the toothache and kiss a frog six times it will cure you.
    If you have warts on your hand and dip it in a well or stream that you were not searching it will cure you.
    You can cure ringworm by rubbing the white of an egg on it.
    If you put a tobacco leaf on a cut it will cure it.
    If you have boils you should drink a glass of lamp oil.
    If you have warts and dip them in the water that the smith cools his irons in it will cure you.
    If you have the whooping cough you should give a donkey a little bit of bread and eat the crumbs that fall from the donkeys mouth it will cure you.
    If you have a pain in your head and fill a silk stocking with hot salt it will cure you.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gretta Byrne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Malin, Co. Donegal