School: Longueville, Malla (roll number 11332)
- Location:
- Longueville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Dhonnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0364, Page 219
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- 1. A cure for a burn was to have a person rub his tongue nine times to the stomach of a lizard and then rub it to the burn.2. A cure for chin-cough was to stop the first man you met riding a white horse. Then ask him for a cure for chin-cough and whatever he would say to do it and then person would be surely cured.3. Nettles boiled and the water given to cows was a sure cure for them.4. Marsh mallows boiled and the water drank was a cure for a sore throat.5. To take three snails boiled in a glass of milk, fasting in the morning was a cure for a cold.6. If a person had sore eye, the fasting spittle rubbed to it was a good cure. To rub a marriage ring was another good cure.(continues on next page)
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- Eileen Leary
- Gender
- Female
