School: Curraigh (B.) (roll number 12066)
- Location:
- Curry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Braonáin
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- If a person had a sore eye let get ten gooseberry thorns and rub nine of them on his eye and throw the tenth over his right shoulder. His eye would cure quickly. A cure for a burn is to get an ivy leaf and heat it on a coal and put it on the burn. It heals it and brings on a new skin.
To drink a glass of donkey's milk is a cure for Whooping cough.
For a resh on the body rub on unsalted butter and sulphur mixed together.
Anogher cure for Whooping Cough drank ferret's leavings, the cough would be cured.
Warts. If a person who was suffering from warts saw a snail without looking for him and tied to a tree the wart would disappear when the snail dies. If a person who has whooping cough meets a man on a white horse and asks him for a cure, it is supposed that whatever the horseman suggested would act as a cure.
When the seventh son in succession of a family is born and a person puts a worm into the infants hand and holds it there until the(continues on next page)
