School: Baile Treasna, Caisleán Mumhan (Ballytarsney) (roll number 15970)
- Location:
- Ballytarsna (Hackett), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Freathaile
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6. My nose began to bleed. I got a piece of moss and put it to my nose and it stopped at once.
7. Four spoons of red pepper in a bottle of porter the 1st March is a cure for pleurisy.
8. To cure a tooth ache is to put a frog in your mouth and when the frog jumps the tooth ache will leave you.
9. For a sty on your eye, when you wake in the morning to rub your fasting spit to it for three mornings, the sty will leave you.
10. A cure for a wart, rub your hand to a stone with dew on it.
11. If any bad thing was happening to anyone, it was said the seventh son could cure it.
12. Long ago people had a feast on Shrove Tuesday night. Bacon was always eaten at this feast. A piece of fat bacon was always kept over. This fat bacon was kept as a cure for rheumatism and other ailments. The piece was called a spórtín.
