School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)

Location:
Dangan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 210

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  1. There is a cure for a sting of a nettle. The cure is to get a dalkin leaf and wet your skin where the sting is and rub the dalkin to it saying, "Dalkin, dalkin in and out take the sting of a nettle out". Keep saying the rhyme and the sting will go away.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. stings (~29)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosaleen Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Margaret Duffy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Summerhill, Co. Meath