School: Móta Ghráinne Óige
- Location:
- Woodlawn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlís Ní Innse
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- (continued from previous page)To cure hiccough
1 Give the person a fright and it will go immediately.
2 Take nine mouthfuls of water without drawing your breath.
3 Drink water out of the far side of a cup(having the near edge under the chin).
4 Hold the left wrist with the right hand and keep in your breath for as long as you can.
5 Take a pinch of sugar.
To cure Corns: Wash the in the dew in the early morning or else in a bog hole.
To Ensure Good Health: Eat three meals of nettles in the month of March and you'll take no disease for the year. Beware of drinking March water.
To cure ear ache: 1 Get a jug of boiling water. Hold the ear over the jug and the pain will go. 2 Tie red flannel over the ear. Heat the smoothing iron and hold it over the flannel a little bit out from the ear and the pain will disappear.
To cure sore throat: 1 Heat salt. Put it in a stocking and tie round the throat.
2 Hot bran similarly used also cures it.
To cure toothache: Get a man who smokes to chew a piece of tobacco and put the chewed tobacco like a plaster on the tooth.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Innse
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir