School: Scoil na mBráthar Sligeach (Sráid na Céibhe) (roll number 16585)
- Location:
- Quay Street, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0161, Page 169
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- XML “Local Cures - Mumps”
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- XML “Local Cures - Rose”
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- (continued from previous page)out through a pig-sty three times.
- A docken leaf above which should be recited six times: "Docken, docken, cure me, nettles, nettles have burned me."
- If the rash is on hands or face wash them with stream water.
- (a) Cut a potato in two and put a part in each pocket. Seaweed & goose-grease is also used.
(b) Build a small shed called a "sweat house." Kindle a large fire in it. Let the patient sit near the fire till the sweat poured down his body. - Collector
- Fr. Higgins
- (a) A relative of the sick person took about a half-pound of unsalted butter to a farmer on a small village in Co. Leitrim. He mixed this with special herbs.
(b) The seventh son of a family. - The cure for the rose was for a person to go and beg three pieces of butter from three people; and run this on the patient. If a man saw another with his head swelled, and said it was the rose; he would have to get the butter.
