School: Géag (C.), Baile na Muc (roll number 13306)
- Location:
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhurchadha
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- An old cure for mumps is - to put a donkey's winkers on the person and lead them round the pig-sty three times.
When two people of the same name are married the leavings of their break-fast is a cure for whooping-cough.
A cure for warts is to get a black snail and rub it to the wart then hang the snail on the thorn of a Black-thorn bush and when the snail is withering away the wart will wither away. The snail must be found by chance it will not do to go looking for it.
A cure for a sprain is - Yarrow, Blackhead leaves and Elder bark. Fry on a pan in un-salted butter. The juice of the herbs is extracted and turns the liquid to a green colour. It is this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mollie Mc Quaide
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Patrick Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
