School: Mainistir Phádraig Naofa (roll number 1016)
- Location:
- Market Street, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An Br Anselm
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0084, Page 147
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Mainistir Phádraig Naofa
- XML Page 147
- XML “Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)stop the blood.
If a person got of a bad cut and another person came to look at it, he would spit on it to make it better.
When a person had a wart on his hand he used to cure it by putting the frothy water off potatoes, when boiling, on it each day until it rotted away. Another way was to rub wet washing - soda on it until it would be burnt away.
When a persons small-tongue fell down he would go to a certain man who was able to cure it and this man, by pulling a certain hair in the victims head, would raise the small - tongue again.
It could also be raised by means of a spoon.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dominick Street Lower, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Curran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- University Road, Co. Galway
