School: Dromlogach Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10908)
- Location:
- Dromlegagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eighneachán Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 528
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- 1. Grind the "slán-lus" in your mouth and lay it on a cut to cure it.
2. To cure a cold put garlick in butter-milk and bury it for three days.
3. If you ask a man with a white horse for a cure for the whooping cough - whatever he says will cure it.
4. If a cow had "the morrain" a frog let into her mouth alive would cure her.
5. If a calf had worm gripe and if the worm [?] was made over him it would cure him.
6. A gander's breath would cure the white mouth in a child.
7. If you put your fasting spit on a wart nine mornings it would be cured.
8. If a person cut his finger a bit of moss would stop the blood.
9. If a cow had a "bulig" - to put a cut on her tongue would stop it.
10. If a person was bleeding from the nose a piece of blotting paper put on his tongue(continues on next page)
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