School: Ballyhahill (C.) (roll number 10686)
- Location:
- Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: H. Fitzgerald
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- (continued from previous page)remedy. Her is another cure for getting rid of warts. Kill a worm and hang it up on a tree, and according as the worm will be withering, so the wart will be witherine too.
To cure an infant's coated with white, let a gander screech three times down its throat. Children suffering from whooping cough, can be cured of it, by asking a man riding a white horse on the public road how to cure it, and then doing whatever he said, no matter how silly. The milk left over, after a ferret drank enough, was also a cure, if given to those who had whooping cough.
A stye on the eye, could be cured, it was said, by making the sign of the Cross over it with a gold ring three successive mornings, while fasting. The seventh son in a family was supposed to possess curative powers for most diseases and sicknesses. It is said that if a worm were put on the palm of his hand, the poor worm would die instantly.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Danaher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknabooly West, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Robert Danaher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Knocknabooly West, Co. Limerick
