School: An Currach, Lios Uí Chearbhaill, Malla
- Location:
- Curra, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Luanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 212
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- A cure for sore-throat is warm salt in a vessel over the fire, fill it into a stocking, go to bed and put the stocking full of salt round your neck and it on during the night.
Soot rolled up in butter and swallowed is a cure for worms in children.
A child suffering from whooping cough is relieved by crawling from side to side under a donkey's belly.
Another cure for the same complaint is ask a man riding a white horse. O man of the white horse how would you cure the "chin-cough and whatever he answers is the cure.
Put a "hairy-molly" into a purse and hang it from the little patient's neck. By the time the hairy-molly is dead the(continues on next page)
