School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 156
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- (continued from previous page)A burn any person that licks a man keepers stomach can cure a burn by licking it
A sore throat If you tie roasted salt roasted potatoes or roasted onions in a stocking around your neck it will cure a sore throat also if you roast bacon and put it to your neck it will cure it
A sting of a nettle If you get a sting of a nettle you should rub a dockin to it and while rubbing you should say "Dockin, dockin cure the sting of a nettle and I will give you bread and butter"
A beeling The root of rose noble will cure a beeling if it is boiled with meal and put on like ointment If you get plantain-leaf and warm it to the fire and then put it on a sore it will heal it.
A swelling Chick weed fried in grease reduces a swelling
Sore eyes If you had sore eyes they would bathe them in cold(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Maria Cummins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mrs Boyce
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Carrickedmond, Co. Longford
