School: Ardrahan, Mainistir Ó dTórna (roll number 13167)
- Location:
- Ardrahan, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhonnabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0412, Page 189
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- Thrush or craosgalar. A cure was to keep a white gander in all night fasting and in the morning to put the bill of the gander into the sufferer's mouth and strike the gander on the back three times so that he would blow his breath into the child's mouth three times. This was done nine mornings after each other and then the child was cured.Whooping cough. A mare donkey was brought into the kitchen and the child that was suffering was put under the donkey's fore legs three times and then was put sitting on the cross of the donkey's back. When this was done the sufferer was cured.
Another cure for whooping cough was if a man riding a white horse was going past the road to say to him "man with the white horse any cure for whooping cough?" and then do what the man said and the child was cured.An old cure for the toothache or to avoid a toothache was if you got a horse's tooth accidentally and keep it always in your pocket and then you would never suffer from a toothache.(continues on next page)
