School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Garland
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 101
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: Streamstown
- XML Page 101
- XML “Bird-Lore”
- 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
- (continued from previous page)[-]
- In olden days when there were not so many doctors as there are nowadays the people who wished to seek relief for their ailments visited certain people who were credited with being abel to cure certain ailments. People also sought (ailments) relief by using certain herbs or insects. For exampe, if a person was suffering from a toothache he was advised to go to a boggy or marshy place and catch a frog. He was then to return home by a different route to that which he took when going and was not to look at the frog on his way home but was to hold him firmly in his hand. When he reached home he was to close his eyes and bite the frog three times. The toothache should then disappear. A man named Kelly who lived in Killalee and who was a seventh sone was possessed of some charm which enabled him to cure a toothache. He rubbed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mona Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Paddy Scott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
