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

Location:
Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 197

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  1. Cure for Measles
    Boil young nettles + give them to the sick person to eat in porridge
    Cure for a Wart
    If you come across a stone with a hole containing water. Rub the water on the wart + make the sign of the cross. You must not look fore the stone
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. A cure for Ringworm
    The seventh son of a family to blow his breath upon it
    Cure for a Whittle
    Break a black snail and put it on the whittle
    Bogdirt will cure a corn.
    Rub a black snail on the wart and then hand the snail on a thorn according as the snail withers the wart will disappear.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    B. Nigh Riabaigh
    Gender
    Female