School: Móta Ghráinne Óige
- Location:
- Woodlawn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlís Ní Innse
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- (continued from previous page)To cure a "Bonnlacht"Apply fat baconTo cure a StingApplhy the dampened blue-bag.To cure a Whitlow(i) Make a poultice of soap and sugar.(ii) Get the white of an egg. Mix some starch with it & put "a squeeze" of the blue-bag into it & apply the past to the affected part. (This is an unfailing cure for calling nails & other types of sore fingers such as splinters under the nail etc.)Cures for Whooping Cough(i) the milk ferrets would leave after drinking (commonly called "ferret's leavings".)(ii) A man riding by on horse-back on a white horse is supposed to have a cure for whooping cought. "A fhir an chapaill bháin céard a leigheasradh an triuc?" Whatever he names will be the cure.(iii) People skin a gráincóg & make soup of him & this soup is a great cure for whooping cough.(iv) A child is slung under a donkey to cure whooping cough. One person catches his hands & another his feet & he is swung three times under the donkey.(v) Donkey's milk also cures whooping cough.Another Cure for WartsGet ten straws with rifts or knots in them. Bury them & when they rot the warts will go.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Innse
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir