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School: Kildangan (C.) (roll number 2292)

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Kildangan, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Máire Ní Dhonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 148

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    Chopped onions and sugar was an old cure for a baby with a bad cold.
    Taken from Maureen Behan Kildangan Co. Kildare
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    When people got warts they would be cured if they put a snail on a thorn and leave it there until it withered, and by the time it had withered the wart would be cured.
    Taken from:- Carrie Weller Kildangan Co. Kildare.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    If a person had the whooping-cough they would be cured if their godfather or godmother bought three yards of red tape and tie in three knots around his neck. Another cure for the whooping cough was to get bread from two people whose names were the same previous to their marriage. Taken from Bridie Carroll Kildangan Co Kildare
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Carrie Weller
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kildangan, Co. Kildare

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    An old cure for a toothache was to hold smoke in your mouth. Two other cursor a toothache was to put tobacco in the sore tooth.or to eat worms.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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