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School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)

Location:
Bellanurly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Mrs Anna Ewing
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 205

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    If you hold a mouthful of smoke in your mouth - cigarette or pipe - it will cure toothache.
    To cure earache you put a bit of black sheep's wool in it. It is a cure for chilblains too. If placed between the first and second toes it will cure bunions.
    An onion heated in the oven and put in the ear will cure earache.
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  2. Other Cures

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    It is believed in Lislakelly, Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo where I live that if you go to a graveyard and take a tooth out of a skull it will cure a toothache. I never heard of anybody trying this. A double hazel nut is also supposed to be a cure.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    O. Hudson