School: Newbliss (roll number 8328)
- Location:
- Newbliss, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Margaret E. Doogan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 212
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The bride wouldn't get home to her own house for a month no matter what happened. After that, side cars were used at weddings. Now-a-days straw men usually come to the wedding house, and the bride and groom go in separate cars to the wedding, and they go for a drive, or go some place for their honeymoon.
- A cure for a bleeding nose is to hold something cold to the back of the head or to the forehead, or to hold back your head. A good cure for a sprained ankle is to pour cold water over it, and to put a cold water bandage on it, or to rub it with goose seam. If you had a pain in your head and tied a wet bandage round your forehead it would take it away.
A cure for a sting of a nettle is to rub it with a green dockin and it would take the pain away.
A good cure for rheumatism is to rub it with heifer's gall and methylated spirits mixed.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mr J. Hall
- Gender
- Male
