School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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- A nettle and wild sage would cure rheumatism. It was thought that if a person, who was born before his father died, blew three times into a person's throat, the person would be cured from sore throat.
- Collector
- Patrick Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skull, Co. Cork
- People in olden times used to drink the milk of a ferret for whooping cough. If a bag of stones is left on the road, and if another person takes them up warts would leave the first person and would come on the second person. If you had a toothache, and put a frog into your mouth, when the frog would croak the toothache would leave. Besom is a cure for pains. It grows wild.
