School: Cloidheach (roll number 12090)
- Location:
- Clydagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire Úna Ní Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0023, Page 0126
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- Warts- to come on a pool of water on a rock unexpectedly, and to wash the warts with the water. Other people put a piece of bacon in a dung hill, and believed that the warts would go when the bacon decayed. A more common cure was to tie a horse hair around the wart.
A pain in the stomach- to stand on your head in a bed and another person to shake you, and for a woman to hang from a door was believed to be a great cure.
Toothache- to rub pepper and bread soda on the gums.
Headache- to measure your head
Whooping cough- ferrets leavings or to ask a cure of a man with a white horse.
A pain in the ear- to put a little piece of an onion into it.
A sore throat- to leave half an onion on the throat and the cloth round it and it was supposed that when the juice penetrated the skin that the pain would go.
Meaca na Humbra- is an herb the root of which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clydagh, Co. Galway
