School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 172
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- 1) TO CURE WHOOPING COUGHCatch a trout and put him into a mug of water. Then give the child who has whooping cough three drops of the water and then the trout must be let go into the river alive.
2) They used also leave milk to the ferret to drink and all he would leave after him was brought home, and some of it was given to the child and it was supposed to cure the disease
TO CURE A STYE IN YOUR EYEPull ten gooseberry thorns and point nine to the affected eye and throw away one. The thorns must be pointed each day and one thrown away every day for nine days and then the stye is supposed to be gone
TO CURE TOOTHACHEDip a little piece of wadding in whiskey and if there is a hole in the tooth, put the wadding into it and it will ease the pain.
TO CURE RHEUMATISMPut goose grease on the place where the pain is and it will cure it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maire Devins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr John Devins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
