School: Scairt Liath, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 2805)
- Location:
- Scartlea Upper, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Traolach Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0393, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)flour and a half pint of sweet oil are mixed and boiled and a poultice of the hot mixture is applied to the wound. A poultice of linseed meal would cure a whitlow. Mustard baths would cure convulsions. if a horse got a bad leg a red hot iron was used to cure it. If a person got blood poisoned he got leeches and put them to the affected part to effect a cure. If a person had corns he put penny leaves to the corns. To cure worms penny leaves were eaten. They were sprinkled with salt before they were eaten.
- If two bells ring at the same time in a house it is a sign that some one is leaving the house to take up some occupation. it is unlucky to go under a ladder. it is very to comb a baby's hair before it is twelve months old.
- Collector
- Máirín Ruiseáil
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Titeskin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Thomas Russell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Titeskin, Co. Cork
