School: Turlough, Béal an Chloga (roll number 14872)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Éalaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0615, Page 056
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“The people used to have very strange sort of cures. ...”
The people used to have very strange sort of cures.
Whooping cough. The best cure for a whooping cough is to drink a ferret's leavings or milk from a grey mare.
For Burns or scalds. A person who licks a lizard will cure the burn by licking it with his tongue.
For bad colds. Garlic if boiled in milk is good for colds.
For a bad cut. A foxes tongue if put to the tongue will cure it.
- Collector
- John P. Kerin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Tim Kerin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortaclare, Co. Clare