School: Clonshough

Location:
Clonshagh, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
C. Ní Bhroin
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  1. To walk under an ass three times cures a cold.
    To put a stocking of salt around your neck is a good cure for a sore throat.
    Put oil on your forehead, it is a good cure for headache. Pepper is a good cure for a toothache.
    Collected by Maisie Hand. Clonshough.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. If you get a red string from your godmother and wear it round your wrist it is the cure for the whooping cough.
    The leavings of milk that ferrits leave after them when they are fed is a cure for the chin-cough.
    There is a leaf called the "planton" leaf, it is a cure for bleeding.
    Nicholas Moran,
    Beaumont, Co. Dublin
    8.4.38
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.