School: Behymore
- Location:
- Behy More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Gallchobhair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0162, Page 058
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Behymore
- XML Page 058
- XML “Our House and Farm”
- XML “Local Cures”
- 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
- (continued from previous page)father was cleaning the drain he found bones.
- Extracts.
Taken from the 5th Std Exercises.
They used a frog to cure toothache. They cured the whooping-cough with asse's milk to drink, or ferret's leavings. They used the juice of a capóg to cure the sting of a nettle. The seventh son or daughter would have the power to cure the "ringworm". They used to cure "Brown-cites" with the saim(?) of a goose or seim of a gander. To cure "jandice" they used peppermint. Water-cress cures a weak heart. Soda and butter milk cures a heart burn. If you put some ink on a "wild fire scab" it would cure it after some time. - Collector
- Peggy Meer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Behy Beg, Co. Mayo
- The cure for a bite of a dog is to pull a rib of the dogs hair and(continues on next page)
