School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)
- Location:
- Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 588
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- It is said that if you have a toothache and put a frogs leg in your mouth it will get better.
If you have warts and put your hand in potato water it will cure them.
If you get a sting of a nettle and rub a dockin leaf to it and say "O Dockin, dockin please cure my sting'' it will cure it.
If you have a sty in your eye point nine gooseberry thorns at it, it will go away.
If you tie a string round the neck of a person who has whooping cough it will cure it.
The seventh son that is born in a house will have the cure of boils and running worm.
- Collector
- Josephine Flanagan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Flanagan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Whitehall, Co. Westmeath
