School: Gortloney (roll number 11978)
- Location:
- Gortloney, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eoghan de Buitléir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 198
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Gortloney
- XML Page 198
- XML “Old Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Old CuresWritten by Maureen Butler, Gortloney, 9th March 1938.This is the cure for the dirty mouth.
If there is a son and his father died before he is born he has the cure of the dirty mouth.Whooping Cough:- If a woman has the same name after she is married as she had before she has the cure of the whooping cough.Mumps:- Go round the pig sty three times with an asses winkers on and say each time "A leakna! A leakna! Sin agat do Leckna. Muckna, muckna, take now,Rheumatism:- Rub goose grease into the place where the rheumatism is.Ring Worm:- Make a circle round it with a gold sovereign.
Sty in the Eye:- Pull ten gooseberry thorns, bless yourself with each of them, point each towards the eye, and throw away the last one. Continue this for nine mornings.Measles:- The juice of boiled nettles will cure the measles.Running Worm:- If there are seven sons in succession in the family, and if a worm is placed in the seventh son's hand at this birth, and left in it til the worm(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Butler
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortloney, Co. Meath
