School: Scoil Sheosaimh Ntha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Threasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 238
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Cures and Herbs.1. If you had tooth-ache and to fill your mouth with cold water and hold it over the fire until the water begins to boil, you would never get it again.
2. If you had tooth-ache and to leave the leg of a frog in it for five minutes you would not get it any more.
3. If you got a burn from a nettle, to get a dock-leaf and to put the juice of it on the it would cure it.
4. If you had a wart, to put the milk of a dandelion on it for a few days it would cure it.
5. If you put the milk of a plant called the "churn-staff" on a wart it would cure it.
6. If you had a piece of bread in cow-dung for a week and when it would be rottening away the wart would be rottening too, but you could not look at it until the week could be up.
7. If you was burned to get a piece of cow-manure and tie it around the burn, it would cure it.
8. If you had a bile and to put boiled moss on it, it would cure it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Una Keaveny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Keaveny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Eskeromullacaun, Co. Galway
