School: Cill Tártáin
- Location:
- Kiltartan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0047, Page 0031
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13. The milk a ferret would leave after him when he would have his meal finished would cure the whooping cough.
14. A person that was born after his or her father's death would be able to cure a baby's sore mouth by blowing into it.
15. If you met a man with a white horse and say "Man with white horse what cure for the whooping cough"? and whatever he would say would cure you.
16. A cure for a cough was the root of sheep-root.
17. A cure for consumption was the juice of the dandelion.
18. Long ago there was a certain grass which was called Rib-grass which was supposed to be a cure for bruises.
19. A man who would lick a lizard had a cure for a burn.
20. To rub a dead man's hand across your neck is a cure for glands.
21. To go out under an ass legs would cure a cold.
22. It is a cure for sore eyes to look out through a gold ring three times.
23. It is a cure for teethaches to put water in your mouth and turn your back to the fire until the water boils.
24. Chilblains can be cured by washing them in fluid and hot water.
25. To cure a pain in your back rub paraffin oil to it.(continues on next page)
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