School: Cathair Loisgreáin (C)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0511
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- (continued from previous page)8. If a person has boils, go to a family where the seventh son or daughter is, and he will give a cure for them.
9. Another cure for boils is to put hot water in a bottle and cork it, and keep it to the boil, and this would burst it.
10. If a person meets a man with a white horse he can give him a cure for boils.
11. Another cure for a sore throat is to chew a piece of tobacco, and swallow the juice.
12. A cure for a swelled foot is to wash it in potato water.
13. A cure for corns is to wash them with parafin oil every night.
14. Long ago the cure the people had for rheumatism was to boil nettles and drink the water in which they were boiled.
15. Another cure for toothache is to wash your teeth with soot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Roche
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Omaun More, Co. Galway
