School: Liath-Mhuine
- Location:
- Leaffony, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Fhionnlaoich
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 360
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- A burn is cured by black tea or the root of the Comfrey when the root is scraped and washed and boiled and made into a pulp and put a poultice of it on the burn. Or get a mankeeper or newt and lick him him and then lick the burn.
The rose or crysipelus is a very bad disease and many a person died from it. The cure for rose is fresh butter and the clippings of a horse's hoof. Many people know the cure for it but they keep it secret.
Warts are cured by rubbing the milk which is in chicken-weed to them or rub a black snail to them and then put a thread through his eyes and hang him on a sloe brush and as the snail is dying your warts are getting better.
- Collector
- Isabel Mc Kinley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leaffony, Co. Sligo
