School: Adoon (roll number 11152)
- Location:
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Charles Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 370
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- (continued from previous page)Monday or Thursday and paint them to the stye and throw the ninth across your right shoulder. A cure for a sprained ankle is boiled Hemlock and bathe the ankle with it.
A cure for a pain in the head is a herb which grows in the ground called “Spearpoint”. A cure for a burn is to throw soda on it or put a wet cloth to it.
A cure for the wild-fire is to rub a half soverign to it three times and say Jesus, Mary, and Joseph each time. There is a well in Ballinamuck called Tober Patrick, and there are many cures in it. There is a certain day in the year on which they go there, and there is a cure fore a toothache if they drink some of the water. A cure for a cough is hot water, and sugar.
- Collector
- Mary Alice Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edergole, Co. Leitrim
