School: Cnapach (Crappagh) (roll number 7529)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   Another cure for heart burn is to go to south running water and obtain 3 jack stones. You must go before sun set. Place them in the fire until they are red, remove and place on the window sill outside and leave there during the night. Rise before sun rise and place them into a basin of water.

   Many people don't eat meat on Wednesday. This is a cure for toothache. Another cure is to get a horse snail and put it in your mouth and keep it there for a few minutes. Ginger is also a cure for tooth ache and also is iodine.

   Garlic will cure throat and head ache.

   Warts are another disfigurement. To wash them with froth from a lake is supposed to cure them. Also to obtain a snail, put it on the warts and then hang the snail on a thorn bush. As the body of the snail withers away so will the warts. Some people tie a silken thread tightly round the warts and cut them off. Still another cure is to

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brigid Mc Goldrick

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knockroe, Co. Monaghan

   Collector

   Jamsie Mc Kenna

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Corduff, Co. Monaghan

   Collector

   Miss Flynn

   Gender

   Female

   Collector

   Peter Mc Gorman

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumary, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Mr Wales

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Crappagh, Co. Monaghan