School: Ceann Locha (roll number 11749)
- Location:
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Matilda Bolster
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- Long ago people had a lot of cures for all sorts of diseases, and some of them wrote them down before they died.
A cure for warts is said to be. Get a big black snail, and rub it on the wart, then stick it on a whitethorn bush, and when the snail is withered the wart will be gone.
Another cure for whooping cough is, catch a trout alive in a stream, and let three drops out of its mouth, into the person's mouth who has the cough.
Then put the trout back in the stream, without hitting it.
If a person licks a man keeper he will have a cure for a burn.
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- Collector
- Matilda Bolster
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
