School: Leixlip (C.) (roll number 2345)

Location:
Leixlip, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Mrs. Harty
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  1. "Local Cures"
    The following is a cure for toothache. Get a frog and rub his head along both gums and you will not have a toothache again for many years.
    A cure for warts is to get a black snail and let it creep along the warts. Then put it on a thorn growing on a hedge and if it dies your warts will disappear. Other cures are a fasting spit on the warts every morning for a week, or melt some washing soda at the fire and rub it on the affected part.
    If a child has the Whooping Cough get a hairy worm put it into a little bag and put it around the child's neck. As it keeps dying the cough keeps fading away.
    A cure for sore eyes is to get cold tea every morning and to bath them with it, or another cure is to put a fasting spit on them every morning and make the [sigh] of the Cross on them, saying "In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost
    Vera Sherry
    12th September 1958
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Vera Sherry
    Gender
    Female