School: Móta Ghráinne Óige

Location:
Woodlawn, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlís Ní Innse
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0199

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    also;
    Fill a paper with small stones and hide it. It is said that if a person finds those stones the warts will leave you and go to him.
    To cure an ailing cow or calf.
    Cut the ear of the animal and let some blood flow and he will recover.
    or
    Get someone who knows how to make the worm knot to perform it over the back of the animal. If the string comes out without a knot the beast will recover.
    A Homely Shampoo for hair.
    Get the yolk of an egg and put it on the dampened hair. Rub well and it will put up a lather equal to any shampoo. Wash the hair in the ordinary way.
    To cure a sore lip.
    Apply one's fasting spit to it.
    To cure "Hives" Get a man who is smoking his pipe to apply tobacco spit to the "hives".
    To cure scabs or sores: let the dog lick them.
    To cure "pins and needles" in the leg, wet the back of the knee - in the hand wet the knuckle, in the arm wet the elbow.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Innse
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Múinteoir