School: Ballyvongane (Measctha)

Location:
Ballyvongane, Co. Cork
Teacher:
D. Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 020

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  1. Long ago, when doctors were scarce people had cures for nearly all kinds of diseases.
    When anyone had thrush, it was believed that by putting a gander's head back the throat the patient was instantly cured.
    A frog put into the mouth was supposed to be a good cure for a toothache.
    If a person wanted to get a tooth out he would go to the forge. The smith would get a cord and tie one end of it to the anvil and the other to the patient's tooth. With a red hot iron the smith would rush towards the person and the latter getting a great fright would jerk backwards, leaving behind the extracted tooth.
    The milk left, after a ferret feeding was supposed to cure whooping cough.
    If a person with a child, sick of whooping cough, goes out early in the morning and meets a man with a white horse, and asks him for a
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary C. Cotter
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Leadawillin, Co. Cork
    Informant
    James Cotter
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Leadawillin, Co. Cork