School: Ceis (roll number 15342)
- Location:
- Kesh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Hainín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 417
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- Local CuresFoul mouth:-
Sometimes when children are very young their tongues become coated all over with white blisters which are very painful. This disease is known as "foul mouth". A cure for this is, to take the child to a person who never saw his or her father - a posthumous child - and get that person to blow his breath on the child three times.Whooping Cough:-
A very popular cure for the Whooping Cough is to give the child the milk left over after a ferret has done feeding.Warts:-
There are two cures used locally for warts. First, to find a black snail and rub it nine times in the wart and then stick(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid A. Tighe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
