School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)

Location:
Tallonstown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
E. Mac Gráinnne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 111

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 111

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  1. Old Cures
    if a person had the chin cough to let a pie ball pony blow its breath on you
    if person had a wart to get a black snail without looking for it rub it on the wart say three hail Marys and the wart will be gone in a few days
    If a person had a sty on his or her eye them should get ten gooseberry thorns and point nine of them to the eye and throw them over the left shoulder and the tenth one is to be thrown over the right shoulder without pointing
    The cure for the mumps is that a man with his father and mother alive can cure the mumps by putting houses winkers on the person with the mumps and take him or her into a piggery and out three times and say three Hail Marys
    Cure for Diabetes, swallow a live frog
    cure for dirty mouth, anyone who never saw their father to breathe on the child
    Cure for boils on the neck put a snail was made use of to put the snail on the boil
    Cure of a burn to lick a man creeper three times in the honour of St Lawrence that was roasted on a griddle
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English