School: Scoil na mBráthar Sligeach (Sráid na Céibhe) (roll number 16585)
- Location:
- Quay Street, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cearbhaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0161, Page 168
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: Scoil na mBráthar Sligeach (Sráid na Céibhe)
- XML Page 168
- XML “Local Cures - Headache”
- XML “Local Cures - Nervous Headache”
- XML “Local Cures - Heartburn”
- XML “Local Cures - Heart Trouble”
- XML “Local Cures - Hoarseness”
- XML “Local Cures - Jaundice”
- XML “Local Cures - Mumps”
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
- (a) Measure the head with a tape, and say some prayers.
(b) Say three "Hail Marys" on your Rosary-beads in the morning.
(c) Put heated salt in a stocking and tie it round your neck.
- Take a raw potato; run the dirt off with a damp cloth; cut it into thick slices and lay these on the forehead.
- Take three pinches of sugar or salt after each other.
- Dandelion heartease.
- Swallow a cup of salt water very slowly.
- Special roots, which only some people can find.
- Collector
- J Martin
- (a) The sufferer's cousin should drive him to three "mairn[?]" waters with an asse's halter round his neck; and drink of the three waters.
(b) Put a horse's bridle on the sufferer's head and bring the patient to a spring well three times.
(c) Put the patients neck in an ass's halter and walk him in and(continues on next page)
