School: Mullach na Cille (roll number 14649)
- Location:
- Mullennakill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chéadagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 054
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- The cure for whooping cough is to give an ass a cut of bread and with the crumbs he leaves fall feed the child that has the whooping cough and then make her go in and out under the ass's belly three times.
The cure for toothache is to put a frog in your mouth and let him jump around on your tooth.
The cure for the thrush is Borax and Honey. Rub it on the child's tongue.
The cure for styes is to look through a gold ring belonging to a married woman that did not change her name.
The cure for a wart is to get a stone and cut the Sign of the Cross on the wart with it, then put the stone in a little bag and throw it on the road and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Johanna Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Glenpipe, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Conway
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Glenpipe, Co. Kilkenny
