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School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)

Location:
Currans, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 095

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    Herbs
    A certain green weed cure the daigie. It was plucked and steeped in water for a long time. Then the juice was given to the patient.
    Green broom used to cure yellow jaundice.
    Chin cough
    A member of the family would go to a cross-road and if he met a man with a white horse he should say "Man of the white horse what cures chin cough" and what ever he says it would cure it.
    The food a ferret leaves after him.
    A sore in the face
    A drop of water lodged in a rock.
    A bleeding cut
    Place a cobweb in the cut.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English