School: Áthán (B.), Lios na Groighe (roll number 14173)
- Location:
- Ahane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Héalaithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0523, Page 298
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- 1 If you have a sore throat heat salt and put it into a stocking and put it around your neck.
2 If you get stung from bees rub the dock leaf to it.
3 If you have a wart rub a snail to it on a dewy morning and then put the snail on a thorn and when the snail would die the wart would be cured.
4 Milk that a ferret would leave would cure the chin cough.
5 A cobweb rubbed to a wound that is bleeding would stop the blood.
6 Soot out of the chimney mixed salt is good for the teeth.
7 The wart weed is also a cure for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Cooke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moroe, Co. Limerick
