School: Móta Ghráinne Óige

Location:
Woodlawn, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlís Ní Innse
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    To cure a "Bonnlacht"
    Apply fat bacon
    To cure a Sting
    Applhy 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 Warts
    Get ten straws with rifts or knots in them. Bury them & when they rot the warts will go.
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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