School: Dunally (roll number 12752)
- Location:
- Doonally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Florence Egan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 125
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- Cures.
A cure for toothache is to put a frog in your mouth.
The seventh son or the seventh daughter has the cure for ringworm. He (she) rubs a gold ring or coin on it and says a prayer.
There is a little flower called the wart weed that cures warts. You break the stem of it, and then rub the milk on the wart, which shortly after fades away. Another cure is to get a black snail and rub it on it. Then impale the snail on a whitethorn bush. When the snail is withered away, the wart will be gone.
Dandelion is a cure for consumption. The ivyleaf is a cure for corns.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Conan Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hazelwood Demesne, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Pauline Kate Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hazelwood Demesne, Co. Sligo
