School: Cnoc an Iubhair (C.)

Location:
Kealid, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire Ní Cheallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 279

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  1. If you go to a bog get a piece of the bog mould and salt it, and rub it to your corns, and it will banish them.
    To boil sheep manure and drink it is a cure for measles.
    There is a cure in the first candle lighted over a corpse.
    If you have warts, fill a bag of stones and leave them on the road. The person who picks them up will take the warts from you.
    If you had a sore eye and if you rubbed it with your fasting spit or with a gold ring it cure it.
    Milk of a thistle is a cure for warts.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Cheallacháin
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Múinteoir