School: Áth Treasna (B.) (roll number 11236)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 174
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- In former years doctors were very few. The people were not able to pay them, so they had cures of their own.
If a person licked the underside of a lizard it would cure a burn. It is said that a child would be cured of the whooping cough if it were passed under a mare donkey three times. Another cure for the whooping cough is to stand at your own door and ask the first who passes riding on a white horse what is the cure for the whooping cough; His directions should be carefully followed.
Ferret's leavings.
The milk left after a ferret has drunk some will cure a child of the thrush. The Brennan family are said to be able to cure the thrush by breathing into the child's mouth three mornings in succession.
A cure for warts is to get a little bag; put as many stones in it as you have warts, and drop the bag at the cross-roads. The person who(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P.J. Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barleyhill, Co. Cork
