School: Nobber (C.) (roll number 5807)
- Location:
- Nobber, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chaoindealbháin
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2. Roast a handful of salt - put into left stocking and tie round your neck during the night.
3. Tie a silk scarf or silk hankerchief round your neck
Thrush or Dirty Tongue: Take the child to a person who has not seen its father three morning. the person must be fasting. He or she blows her breath into the childs mouth
Whooping cough: Get a piece of bread which a married woman (who when married does not change her name) leaves. Eat a bit of it three mornings while fasting. At the same time making the sign of the cross. (Mrs Thomas Finnegan of Rahoo cures whooping cough)
Chin cough: Make child walk three times under the foal of a maiden ass
2. Father goes to neighbours house, gets asse's milk and gives it to sufferer. Three times three mornings fasting.
3. Ferret's milk. Take a vessel of milk, get ferrets drink. Take milk then and give it to sufferer. Breath of ferret on milk supposed to be the cure.
Swollen foot: Bathe your foot in water in which potatoes have been boiled
