School: Doire na Creiche
- Location:
- Derrycreigh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Drioscóil
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- There are peculiar cures for certain diseases in rural districts in Ireland. Long ago when anyone got sick the relations would never send for a doctor but they would try to cure them themselves. There are various "cures" for diseases and the most of them are successful.
Not many years ago a very common disease among children was "thrush or craos-galar" If a child got "craos galar" the father would catch him in the morning and blow his breath into the child's mouth. This is done three mornings in succession and at the end of that time the child is supposed to be cured.
Other people say a gander would cure "craos-galar" The gander is taken from the flock of geese and left fasting under a basket or a tub for a night
In the morning he is taken out and a person holds him before the child's mouth and squeezes him so that the gander's breath would enter the child's mouth.
- Informant
- Patrick Galvin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Derrycreigh, Co. Cork
