1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Achadh Mhaoláin

School: Achadh Mhaoláin (roll number 9254)

Location:
Aghawillin, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Mrs Prior
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 372

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 372

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Achadh Mhaoláin
  2. XML Page 372
  3. XML “Local Cures”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Cures (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    Ghost
    Amen
    4. The cure of the chin cough.
    The way the cure of the chin cough is made to catch a frog and put it into a bottle of spring water and let the frog die in it and throw the frog out of the bottle. Then give the person who would have the chin cough three spoonfuls until they got better.
    5. The cure of the Thrush. There is a girl the name of Katie Pope has that cure The way the cure of the thrush is made by drawing their breath into the person's mouth that has it for eight or nine times when they come in to the house and (and) before they leave it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine Maxwell
    Gender
    Female