School: Ballinacarrow (roll number 13277)
- Location:
- Ballynacarrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Duibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0175, Page 313
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- To cure Baldness:- Cut and bruise an onion. Rub the sap mixed with a little honey into a bald patch: keep on rubbing until the spot gets red. This concoction if properly applied, would grow hair on a duck egg.
To Cure the Mumps
Long ago when people had the mumps their parents used to put 'horses' head-stalls on their heads and lead them around the pigsties and say;- "Hugada-leckna, leckna, leckna, muc, muc, muc,!" Chugat, a leicne"
To cure Thrush in the neck.
The gander was put un a Cliabh and left fasting during the night(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Collis
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Collis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonacurra, Co. Sligo
