School: Willistown, Dunleer (roll number 7597)
- Location:
- Willistown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ó Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0671, Page 166
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- To cure thrush - a girl who had never seen her father used to breathe three times on three successive days into the mouth of the baby affected.
Sore eyes were cured by being bathed in the water of St. Colman's well mentioned already.
The mumps were cured by walking three times backwards round a pig sty.
The whooping cough was cured by passing three times backwards and forwards under a mare ass.Touch-me-not was cured by a poultice made from seven herbs. My informant Miss Heany, Finvoy aged 71 yrs, can recall only five of them: Rose Noble, goldren rod, lady's finger, ribbon grass, carpenter's leaf.
The person making up the poultice should not pull the herbs.
