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School: Móta Ghráinne Óige

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Woodlawn, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlís Ní Innse
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0254

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    A Cure for a Sore Throat
    To warm coarse salt and put it in flannel. Tie it around the throat and it will cure it
    A cure for a toothache
    Get a bit of tobacco and put it down in the hole in the tooth
    A Cure for Convulsions
    To put the child in a bath of hot water and sponge the forehead with cold water.
    Asked by Maureen Mullen Killaan Woodlawn.
    Got from Mrs. Mullen Killaan Woodlawn.
    A Cure for a wart
    Get a snail and rub it of the wart and put it on a thorn bush and while the snail would be dying the wart would get better.
    A Cure for a sty is a prod of a gooseberry thorn.
    A Cure for ear ache is black sheeps wool and dip it in sweet oil
    A Cure for the chin Cough
    If you met a man with a white horse and ask him for a cure and whatever he would say would cure it. It is said that a child who never saw its
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lena Kenny
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hillswood, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Kenny
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hillswood, Co. Galway