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 213
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- (continued from previous page)"whooping-cough is cured. Another cure for this complaint is to put a dearg-díabal into a bottle, cork it and put it under the patients bed. When the dearg díabal is deal the patient is cured.
To cue a whitlow in the finger get a fresh cowdung from a cow off the grass warm it and make a poultice of it and put to the sore finger This poultice was applied to any sore etc when a poultice was needed.
A popular for Cpaosghalar is a gander that is fasting to be made hiss three times for three mornings into the childs mouth or to get a posthumous child to blow his breath three times into a persons mouth.
To look through a gold ring will cure a craon-fabra.
A cobweb applied to an cut was an old remedy to stop bleeding was supposed to have healing properties. A lot of(continues on next page)
