School: Losad (roll number 10726)
- Location:
- Losset, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Herbert Taylor
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- Ailment Remedy.
Toothache Apply a live frog and leave it inside the jaw where the tooth aches.
Dirty Mouth A person whose father dies before he is born has the cure of this disease by blowing his breath nine times into your mouth
Evil Wildfire Gold ring on the spot where the disease it
Rheumatism Get the bog bean and boil it, and drain the juice off it and drink it.
Swelling Grate the roots of the comfrey plant and put on the swollen part
Rickets Bring the child for three mornings before the sun rises to the blacksmith's forge and leave him on the anvil. The blacksmith swings his hammer three times over the child and says prayers in his mind
Sting of a wasp Rub blue to the place where you get the sting
- Collector
- Eileen Costello
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumgoan, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- James Costello
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumgoan, Co. Monaghan
