School: Cúil Mhaoile (Scoil N. Feichín)

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1. Local Cures

   

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   The whooping cough is cured by walking out under an ass foal's legs. A thorn was taken out in former times by leaving a foxes tongue over the place where the thorn was. Bee Sting. If the bee is allowed to draw out the blood when he is seen stinging a person then the sting will not affect that person. A bee's sting a wasp's sting and a clag's sting are cured by putting a blue bag into water and squeezing it down on the sting. A sprain is cured by holding the spot where sprain is under a waterfall. Eye trouble. Hugh Gallagher makes ointment for sore eyes. He gathers herbs and pounds them. Then he mixes butter with the pounded herbs. A hiccough is cured by take a drink of water. A cold is cured in this way: warm butter-milk and sweeten it with about two spoons of sugar and then drink it. A burn. If soap is scrubbed on the affected part immediately after getting the burn it will be alright. Miss Benson, [?] makes ointment for curing burns. She makes it out of herbs and oil. An old cure for corns was to rub them with

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Gallagher

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kinnagrelly, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   James Benson

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   72

   Address

   Kinnagrelly, Co. Sligo