School: Kyle (An Chill) (roll number 4442)
- Location:
- Kyle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
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- The people around here have many old cures.
1. A cure for a wart is to put your fasting spit on it every morning.
2. Another is to rub a snail to it and to put the snail on a white-thorn bush and when he gets rotten the wart goes away. If any bird eats the snail before he is rotten the wart will not go away.
3. If a person had a wart and threw a bag of stones on the road and if anybody else found them the wart would go away and the person who found the stone would take it.
4. If you had warts and if you got a twig and cut a piece out of it for every wart and throw it over your head it is said that the warts would go away.
5. A cure for a wart is to get a piece of fat meat and put it in clay and when it gets bad the wart goes away also.
6. Yarrow and wild sage are cures for pains.
7. Pepper and salt are cures for toothaches.
8. Another cure for toothaches is to rub iodine to your gums.
9. If you broke a frog's leg and put it under your tooth it would cure toothaches.
10. A cure for an earache is to put sheeps'(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Long
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockmonalea West, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr M. Mac Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockmonalea West, Co. Cork
