School: Bunninadden
- Location:
- Bunnanaddan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: John J. Rochford
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0348
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- Cures
Whooping Cough
It is said that asses' milk and ferret's leavings are cures for the whooping cough.
Burns
Catch a mankeeper and lick him with your tongue. This is a cure for a burn. Another cure for a burn on the hand is to get the clay under the leac and put it on the burn.
Foul Mouth
A person who never saw his father has the cure for the foul mouth. The person who has the cure breathes into the child's mouth and prays.
A thorn
A thorn ca be taken out by the tongue of a fox.
A Corn
Scoop a hole in a turnip and fill the hole with salt at night. The water that would be in the hole in the morning would cure the corn.
A stye
To point ten gooseberry thorns and throw away the eleventh is a cure for a stye on the eye. Rub black tea on a stye also cures it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Anderson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bunnanaddan, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr James Anderson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bunnanaddan, Co. Sligo
