School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Page 131
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- 1. A cure for "craos-galar" is to get a gander and to blow his breath three times into the child, and it is immediately cured.
2. A cure for "croop" is to drink three drops of a black cat's blood.
3. A cure for warts is to get water that is lodged on a stone and to rub it to the warts, and they go away very quickly.
4. A cure for a tooth-ache is to put a frog into your mouth and to hold him inside for a few minutes, and then it goes away.
5. Another cure for warts is to put a piece of meat into manure and according as the meat is decaying the warts go off the person's foot.
6. A cure for a head-ache is to boil the root of camomile and to drink the juice and it goes away immediately.
7. A cow, when, after calving, her udder gets stiff and hard, the cure to soften(continues on next page)
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- Eibhlís Ní Chorradáin
- Gender
- Female
