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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí

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Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Olivia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 271

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    If you rub the finger of a dead child along your gum you will never have a toothache. If you pull a feather out of the tail of a crow you will never have a headache.
    A cure for warts is to wash your hands in the water collected in a stone. Another cure is to cut a potato in halves and rub one half on the warts, another is to rub a black snail on them and then hang the snail on a bush and while the snail is withering the warts are going.
    A cure for whooping cough is to take asses milk or ferrets leavings. A cure for the yellow jaundice is to fry a cockroach and put it in
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    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
    Úna Ní Bheannacháin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    B. Cunningham
    Age
    46
    Occupation
    Feirmeoir
    Address
    Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon