School: Rockwood, Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Derreennaclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chorcora
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- (continued from previous page)The people visit Holy Wells and say prayers or pay rounds to cure sores. They wash the sore with the water
To cure whooping cough: - cut a white turnip into slices, put sugar between the slices and drink the juice extracted in this way.
Stretch the child under and over the donkey's back nine times
Drink the water which flows between two townlands. Drink donkey's milk.
To cure corns: - wash in water mixed with washing soda, wash in bluestone
To cure whooping - cough: - eat or drink the food left behind by a ferret.
To cure thrush: - the father would breathe into the child's mouth three times.
To cure measles: - drink donkey's milk.
To cure boils: - rub with the fasting spit or with cream. Apply a linseed meal poultice
A tongue would draw out a blackthorn.
A cure for thrush: - Boil the berries of ivy and rub the juice to it.
If a man licked a lizzard he could cure a burn by licking it
If a person hurt the bone of his leg he could cure it by standing in a stream and letting the water fall off a rock down on the sore part.(continues on next page)
