School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   along rideing a white horse & someone to run out of the house & say what would cure the whoopen cough & what ever he would say, it would cure it. To put alive frog into milk & boil it & drink the milk it would cure it. I one had sore eyes and to go to the holy well three times once for three Sunday & say some prayers & wash the eyes with the holy water & say some prayers & someone in the house must fast for three days they must only eat their breakfast & the eyes would be cured. If anyone had wild fire & if a man or woman named Welsh bled their finger & rub it to it, it would cure it. To have a sore foot or finger & get a dog to lick it, it would cure it. To cut a potato in three places & rub it to the warth it would take it. To put a spit in the morning on a warth it would cure it. If one had to cough & go to a well nine times in the morning it would go.
   Pupil's Name. Chrissie Younge. Curraleigh. Borrisoleigh. Co Tipperary
   Got From. Pat Younge. Curraleigh. Borrisoleigh. Co Tipperary
   55 yrs.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   These are some cures that were in my district in former times it is said that this cure for a tooth ache to fill your mouth with cold water & sit down on a range until it would

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Harry Cummins

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cronavone, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs Mary Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   78

   Address

   Cronavone, Co. Tipperary