School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)
- Location:
- Aclint, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Neill
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The way they used to cure a stone-bruise long ago was they would rub a snail to it. To chincough the mother of the child would have to carry the child around an anvil in a forge seven times at twelve o' clock at night. To cure toothache they would rub a part of a frog to the tooth. To cure a boil there was a little plant calld 'bogles' that grew near a stream; they would boil the plant with porridge and poultice they [?] with it when it would be hot. They used to use a fox tongue for taking out a thorn.
Wtitten by Annie Mohan 21st January 1938,
Told by Michael Mohan 20 January 1938,
Aclint,
Ardee,- Collector
- Ainnie Mohan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Mohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aclint, Co. Louth
- There are lots of different cures. The cure for the Whooping cough is boil Thistles and drain the water off it. The cure of the warts on your fingers is; if you meet a snail in a field and you fasting left it and rub it on the warts, then hang it on a bush and when it is withered the warts will be cured.
There is a disease called "Touch me-not" and(continues on next page)