School: Carnadough (B.), Newtowncashel
- Location:
- Cornadowagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Eustace
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 319
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- 1. A cure for a sore throat is to roast salt and out it into a Stocking and tie it around your throat at night.
2. A cure for a headache is to put your nose over a cup of tea and sniffle it in.
3. The seventh son or daughter of a family can cure ringworm.
4. If a person had the thrush or chincough and visit holy wells and if they said prayers and make a promise to do some good act they would be cured.
5. The cure for a wart is if you get a black snail without looking for it and rub it on the wart and then hang the snail on a thorny bush and while the snail is withering away the wart is withering also.
6. A cure for sore eyes is to bathe them with black tea.
- Collector
- Brian Ó Maoil Mhichil
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leab, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Mulvihill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leab, Co. Longford
