School: An Cnoc, Clanna Caoilte
- Location:
- Knocks, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0312, Page 100
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- Our pagan ancestors had many queer Cures for every sickness. The Milk of the sheep was supposed to be a great cure for measles and the donkey's milk was supposed to cure whooping-cough.
A black cat's blood was supposed to cure wild fire. Another funny cure was if a child was bad with croop one would stand at each side of a donkey and pass the child under the donkey three times. Another belief was any person that would lick a lizard had a cure in their tongue for a burn. Another belief was to make "plaus na peiste" several times over a dying cow and it would cure her.
[-]Plas na peiste was a knot made over a dying cow. It was made by putting two knots on a cord and open them by another kind of knotting. I know how to make this,
- Collector
- Diarmuid Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carhoovauler, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John P. Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carhoovauler, Co. Cork
