School: Drumacoon (roll number 351)
- Location:
- Drumacoon, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Grianáin
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“If you lick the belly of a man-keeper nine days after other and say certain prayers you will be able to cure sprains.”
If you lick the belly of a man-keeper nine days after other and say certain prayers you will be able to cure sprains.If you rub a dokin to the sting of a nettle it will cure it.If a person has a heart-burn the cure for it is take a spoonful of soda.When you are walking along the road and finds a hairy-horse left it up and set it on your tooth this will cure the tooth-ache.If person fell and got a lump on his head the cure for it is get a cold stone and hold it to it.When anyone gets a bad cut there is a plant called slanus that is sure to stop it from bleeding.When you take a wart, if you find a black snail without looking for it and set it on the wart then throw it on a blackthorn bush and as soon as it fades away the wart will fade away.An eel skin is very useful for the cure of a sprain.There are certain wells through the country that will cure the jaundice. When you go to this well you have to drink a sup of this water, and leave a small bit of your clothes at it so that you will be cured properly.The cure for a sting is, get a plant called a dokin, and say dokin, dokin, in and out, take the sting of the nettle out, and while you are saying this, the sting will go away.