School: Druminardly
- Location:
- Drumman Beg, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Cuanáin
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- Local Cures
(a) soap and sugar together are good for a boil (b) cabbage leaf.
Smoking is good for a toothache.
Cure for stopping blood: (a) moss, (b) cobweb (c) St. John's leaf, (d) brown paper and (e) St. Patrick's leaf.
Cure for bleeding nose: Put something cold to the back of the neck. (e.g. iron, stone)
Cure for a sty: (a) Point a gooseberry thorn nine times at the sty and then throw it into the fire. (b) Point nine gooseberry thorns at sty and throw tenth into fire.
Cure for a wart: (a) Rub snail to wart (b) Water found in a hole in a stone without looking for it and make the sign of the cross on it. (c) If a stone is boiled with potatoes without knowing it, it will cure a wart by rubbing it to the wart. (d) Washing soda (e) castor oil (f) throw a stone after a funeral the warts would go.
Got from: Mrs Browne. Druminardly, Ruskey, Dromod, Co. Leitrim (76)
- Informant
- Mrs Browne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Druminardly, Co. Roscommon
