School: Cor Liath (2) (roll number 14380)
- Location:
- Corlea, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Róise Ní Dhéaghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 144
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- Local cures.
Goose seam used for sprains and hurts.
Sting of a nettle - rub a docking on it.
Women married to man of same name can give a cure.
The skin of an eel is a cure for sprain.
Rub a snail on a wart and then put the snail on a bush and when the snail dies the wart will die.
Flax water is a cure for a wart.
Carry a potato or a nutmeg in a pocket to cure rheumatism.
When a funeral passes rub a potato to a wart and throw the potato after it and the wart will go away
Let a dog lick a stone bruise and it will be cured.
A sty - Take 9 gooseberry thorns and point one at a time at it every morning fasting ans say "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
Chicken weed is a cure for toothache.
- Collector
- Muriel Mitchell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantonagh, Co. Monaghan
