School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic de Chlár
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0258
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- (continued from previous page)5. For what is called Bannú Phiast The seventh son of a family in which there is no daughter before him in whose land a worm would be pleased before anything else. Of that worm would die therein that land had a complete cure for the malady my touching the sore.
6. Worms. For children subject to worms there is a plaster composed of herbs and applied over the stomack which has cured children where dostars have been known to fail.
7. Chincough. (a) Take more than a supply os sweet milk to a ferret and give what would be left over to a child for the successive days. (b) Stand on the road until a man with a white horse comes along. Ask him for a cure for chin cough Whatever he prescribes that is the cure
8. If one left a lizzard on ones tongue a red hot iron would have no effect on that tongue and the tongue would have a cure for a burn.
- Informant
- Mr Pat Curry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynaparky, Co. Galway
