School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)it is cured. When a person gets a pain in his side he should stoop three times & the pain will go. A cure for the hic-cough is to drink round the rim of it three times. The cure or heart failure is to drink a cup of hot water before breakfast. When people has a stoppage in their speech. If they go to the sea shore and put a pebble between their teeth it is supposed to cure it. For ague certain people have the cure of it. When a person have it they go to this man, he brings them into a room. then he would go out & after a while he would come in with a spoonful of jam and give it to the person in the midst of it there would be a spider & the person would get better. Another cure for ringworm is to put a fasting spit on it in the morning & bless your self. Another cure for a pain in the head is to dip your head in a well and say "Lord cleanse me for I have sinned" & you will not have a pain in your head for a twelve month. Boil the roots of Hemlock in grease, this cures all sorts of sores. The golden rod is the cure for a pain The cure for King evil was garlic, sut, and lard pounded together put on as a poltice & left on for nine days this was done three times. Groundsel was used as a laxitive. When the plant known as the fire finger was used for reverse results. The second growth of a nettle boiled on new milk is supposed to cure anemia. For to cure ringworm(continues on next page)
