School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

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1. Leigheasanna (continued)

   

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   for stopping blood is moss. A cure for a pain in the back is a home-made flannel belt worn around the waist.
   Toirpeen is a herb for sore eyes and corns. It grows on old thatched houses. Comphrey when pounded up is a cure for setting broken bones and sprains. A cure for the whooping cough is ferret’s leavings. If a man licked a lizard he could cure a person of a burn.

   
   Collected by: - Máire Ní Choileáin, Dromoher
   Told by: - Patrick Linnane, Dromoher (75 years)

   

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2. Leigheasanna

   

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   The cures for Rheumatism are to beat the affected part with nettles, or to blister it with a herb called the lion’s paw. A cure for a cut is to put St Patrick’s leaf to it. A cure for warts is to go to the Blessed Well at Cill Bhaighdeáin on a Thursday and two Mondays, or two Thursdays and a Monday, and leave a penny or a half-penny there, and rub the water to the warts.

   There was a man living in Leana who could cure a headache. It was called “Afternoon fever”. The patient should go to him on two Mondays and a Thursdays. He cured it by measuring the head from the chin to the top and around it. He would then get the white of an egg and say prayers over it. He would put a little of it on the patient’s head, and leave it there for three weeks. Then the headache would go.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Choisgle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coad, Co. Clare

   Informant

   John Costello

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   58

   Address

   Coad, Co. Clare