School: Kilfenora (B.) (roll number 2155)
- Location:
- Kilfenora, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Mag Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0620, Page 144
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- (continued from previous page)When you think you are getting a cold or getting a sore neck swallow salt water and your neck will get good again.
- 1. If you drink milk which a ferret leave's after being drinking it, it is believed to cure whooping cough.
2. If you put feathers, or a cobweb, or "slanus" to a cut it will stop the blood.
3. Put an ivy leaf to a sore heal.
4. Lick a lizard and then lick a burn and it will be cured.
5. It will cure warts to wash them in water which you find accidentally on the hollow of a stone.
6. If a child has whooping cough the father goes out and meets a man with a white horse, and he ask's the man has he any cure for whooping cough. The man says in Irish a drink of water or hot milk, and if the man does what he is told the child is supposed to be cured.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Pádraig Ó Slatarra
- Gender
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