Scoil: Kyle (An Chill) (uimhir rolla 4442)

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1. Cures and Diseases

   

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   The people of my locality have some old cures for diseases.
   1 The cure for rheumatism is to get wild sage and mint and boil them together.
   2The old cure for the thrush is to go under a white donkey's stomach three times and kiss the cross on his back.
   3 There is a well in my locality in which there is said to be a cure for rheumatism. The cure is, if you find a stone with a hole in it and water in the hole and to drink the water.
   4 Rag-weed is a cure for cuts either on people or on animals.
   5 Mull porter is an old cure for the measles.
   6 Chicken Pox. Warm porter and milk is a cure for the chicken pox.
   7 Mumps. Boiled milk and salt us a cure for the mumps.
   8 Whooping Cough. To cut a piece off a goat's ear and tie it to the child's dress, its supposed to be an old cure for the whooping cough.
   9 Warts. If you got a snail and rub it to the warts and then put the snail up on a white thorn tree, and when the snail would die the warts would go away.
   10 Headaches. To get a red cloth and put it out on a white-thorn- tree on Saint Bridget's night. The cloth is blessed and if you had a headache the cloth

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   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Maureen Sheehan

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Ballykilty, Co. Cork

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr J. Sheehan

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   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Ballykilty, Co. Cork