School: Lowtown (B.), Galbally
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0513, Page 065
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- The best cure for a sting of a nettle is to rub the juice of a dock leaf to it.
The best cure for warts is to get one white pebble for every wart a person has and put them into a paper bag and leave it at a cross-roads. The first person that'll pick up the bag will get the warts.
A cure for a pain in the stomach is to make the sign of the cross on the road with two stones. The best cure for a sty in the eye is to look through a gold ring three times.
A cure of wild fire is to write your name around it. A nail out of a graveyard is a cure for tooth-ache.
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Riain
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keeloges, Co. Limerick
