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 534
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- (continued from previous page)75. Mistletoe is good for the head.
76. Raspberry is good for sore throat.
77. Cowslips (flowers) is an excellent after supper drinks.
78. Nettles are good for the blood.
79. If a cow has sore paps rub with bog water and soot.
80. If a person has the "Yellow Gandis" boil a piece of a certain weed in a cup of milk and drink it.
81. If a person had a boil put the paper of blackening (black polish) to it.
82. To stop a nose from bleeding press the blade of a pocket knife to the bridge of the nose.
83. If you have warts on your hands you could cure them by rubbing a black snail to the warts. Then hang the snail on a White Hawthorn tree and as the snail rots the warts will disappear.
84. If a cow has the scour get the roots of briars and boil them and give it to the cow to drink.
85. There was a cow and she had the "murn" and all the cures they tried failed. Finally a man said to tie a cord to a frog's leg and hold up the cow's head and let the frog go back as far as possible until she would chew the chud.
86. If you had a wine scar scratch the root of the comfery and it will cure it.(continues on next page)
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