School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: An tSr. Concepta le Muire
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- (continued from previous page)Cold.
The cure for a cold is to boil flaxseed and add lemon and brown sugar, strain and drink the liquid.
- Thorn Cure.
A poultice of bacon put on the sore part draws out the thorn.
Whooping Cough.
If you eat the bread left by two married people, the wife having the same name as her husband before they were married, you are supposed to be cured of the whooping cough. Nowadays nobody beleives in this superstitious cure.
Eczama.
"Robin run the hedge" is supposed to cure Eczama when rubbed to the affected parts.
Sty
If one puts a thorn of a gooseberry bush on the sty, blesses himself, and then throws it over his left shoulder it is supposed to cure him.
Sore Throat: It is said if you tie a woollen(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bridie Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs P. Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Navan, Co. Meath
