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School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)

Location:
Oughterard, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 219

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  1. Leigheasanna (continued)

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    It is said that if a person licked a lizard and afterwards to lick and cut would get better
    If a person had a sore face it is a cure to put a fasting spit on it for nine mornings.
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  2. Leigheasanna

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    Styes: Cold tea cures styes
    Sore throats: Put oaten meal into your left stocking and put it around your throat. Also to place hot salt in a stocking and put it around your throat
    Stings: To rub a blue-bag on the sting
    Toothache: A frog put in your mouth or to lick a black lizard
    A Cut: Cuts are cured this way - to put a cobweb on the cut
    Warts: To steal a piece of bacon and bury it. When the bacon
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Aingeala Ní Chonghaile
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Oughterard, Co. Galway