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School: Glenculloo, Killoscully (roll number 11083)

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Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary
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Máiréad Ní Ogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 104

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    In former times the people depended
    their lives upon herbs and charms. The
    cure for a toothache was to put a
    frog into your mouth and let him
    jump out himself.
    The people of this locality
    have no cure for thrush as they have
    had no experience of it. The milk
    left behind by a ferret is supposed
    to cure the Yellow-Jaundice. The people
    living in this locality do not
    remember anyone visiting holy wells.
    The curing of ching-cough
    is to crawl through animals legs
    three times. If you met a man with a grey
    horse it is also supposed to
    cure it. A burn is cured by a
    leaf of hart's-tongue fern. A nettle
    sting is cured by applying a dock
    leaf to the affected place.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hickey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Hickey
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary