School: Druim an t-Seagail (roll number 1772)

Location:
Ryehill Demesne, Co. Galway
Teachers:
Máire Ní Eimhirín Seosamh P. Ó hUigín Áine Ní Uigín
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  1. If anyone in the house has the measles go out to the first man who passes on a white horse and ask him for a cure. Do whatever he tells you and it will cure the measles.
    W. Forde

    If a horse died and you boiled the leg and drank the soup 'twould cure the measles.
    Michael Fanning

    If you boiled a Gráinneóg and drank the juice of it 'twould cure the whooping cough.
    Rita Costelloe

    If you cut the ear off a goat and boiled it the soup would cure the whooping cough.
    P. Cooke
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Burns and scalds are cure in district by being touched with the tongue of a person, if a lizard had been applied to the tongue. Agnes Foley from Lettermore Connemara had the power, and explained that when she was young her mother put a lizard on her tongue. On one occasion in the district she licked the hand of a woman who had been seriously scalded with soup, and no blister came on it, and all pain departed.
    Mary Higgins, Ryehill
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Higgins
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Address
    Ryehill Demesne, Co. Galway