School: Baile na hEaglaise (Chapeltown)
- Location:
- Chapeltown, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó hAiniféin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 252
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- (continued from previous page)there was a cure in the dog's lick.
15. When a young calf got a disease called "worm", the old people had a cure for it called "Snaidhm na péiste." They would get a cord or string and make three knots on it and while the knots were being made the sign of the cross should be made.
16. If a person was bleeding hard from the nose he would flat on the back and put an iron door key down the back, and after a few minutes the bleeding would stop.
17. Another cure for a burn was to spread soda and the white of a raw egg on it.
18. If a child was sick they would give a piece of his hair to a dog to eat it in a piece of bread.
19. A kind of Rash called "St Anthony's Fire" was prevented from spreading by writing your name in ink around it.
20. If a person had a "toothache" he would put soda and lukwarm water into the tooth and it used deaden the pain.
21. To write your name around "ringworm" was a cure to prevent it from spreading.
- Collector
- Morgan Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Daniel King
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
