School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)
- Location:
- Knocknamanagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dáithí de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0321, Page 137
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- (continued from previous page)The sign of the cross was made nine times with the fasting spittle to cure a wisp on the eye.
Tea made by boiling milfoil or yarrow was drunk to cure rheumatism.
Warts were cured by smearing them with the milk of the dandelion.
Another way to get rid of warts was to place as many small stones in a bag corresponding to the number of warts one had. The person who picked up the bag then got the warts and they disappeared from the original person.
Rheumatism was cured by a poultice of that variety of seed-weed which has bulbs like raisins
To cure whooping cough children were passed in and out under a mare donkey with foal nine times
The owner of a donkey used take her from door to door in Kinsale, milk her and sell milk for delicate children
When children had craos galar they were cured with milk left by a ferret. The breath of a goose is also good for it.
Penny leaves are good for corns and burns.
If the seventh son was born on Good Friday and christened on Easter Sunday he could cure all diseases and was called doctor
If you ate three meals of boiled nettles in the month(continues on next page)
