School: Calry (roll number 10473)
- Location:
- Colgagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Róisín Mhig Ualghairg
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“If a man and his wife were milking the cows and a stranger came into the byre...”
(continued from previous page)to his eye three days in succession, and would throw the tenth one away. This done, the eye is supposed to be cured.
Anything a person gets without asking for it is supposed to be a cure for the hay-cup. (hiccough)
A person would be cured of the whooping cough if he would drink out of a trout's mouth.
Foul mouth may be cured by chewing the stem of a piece of woodbine in your mouth.
Garlic, boiled on sweet milk, is a cure for a cold.
Mountain, sage, liquarice stick, sugar of candy and alcohol boiled together is a cure for a cold on the chest.
If you give a ferret milk to drink, the amount he leaves after him is a cure for the whooping-cough.
A herb grows along the ditches and some times on the walls of old houses. If this is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Angela Mc Godrick
- Gender
- Female