1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Mullach na Sídhe (C.)

School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)

Location:
Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 196

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 196

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.)
  2. XML Page 196
  3. XML “Local Cures”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Cures

    Share Share Post
    Cure for chin cough.
    It is said if you have the chin cough you should walk for a mile every day and if on one of those days you happen to meet a man riding on a white horse and if you ask him for a cure and whatever he commands if you do it you will be cured.
    Another cure for a chin cough is drink asses milk (donkey milk) and go under the ass three times.
    Cure for a burn.
    If you get a burn you should gather every herb you can get and mix them with unsalted butter and then boil them and when they are boiled and cold rub them on the burn and they will cure it.
    Sty in the eye.
    Get nine thorns from a gooseberry bush and point eight of them towards your eye and throw the ninth one across your right shoulder and go around the pig sty 3 times and after a while the sty will go.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    M. Nic Diarmuda
    Gender
    Female