School: Craughwell (Girls)
- Location:
- Craughwell, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Margaret M. Callanan
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- Monica Connolly, Cahercrin, Craughwell.In our place when curing warts people get a snail and rub it nine times on the wart and then hang the snail on a white thorn bush and when the snail has withered the wart is gone.
The milk of a dandelion is also good for a wart and the water on a stone when you are not looking for it.
When children have the whooping caugh people give them whatever cure they got when they meet a man with a white horse.
Another cure for whooping cough is to get a porcupine, kill him, take off the skin. Then boil the flesh till very tender and give the soup to the children.
A good cure for a sore throat is to get “flaggers” and put them into a stocking and put them around the throat.
A bite from a dog can be cured by a rib from the dog.
Cold tea is a good cure for sore eyes.
A cure for sore feet is to get a piece of fat bacon when(continues on next page)- Collector
- Monica Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cahercrin, Co. Galway