School: Askamore (roll number 15675)

Location:
Askamore, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Margaret McGrath

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Local Cures

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 037

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Black cat's blood and double Kehoe's blood is supposed to be a certain cure for body shingles.
Cobwebs are used for stopping blood from a fresh cut.
When we get a sty on our eye we get a thorn from a goose-berry bush, and stab it three times , and after a time it disappears.
When a whitlow comes on a finger, the cure is to dip it three times in boiling potato water.
When we get an erysipelas we scorch a quantity of flour, and make a poultice, and apply daily for nine days.
There is a certain herb that grows in a bog, but is hard to be got. It is called stone-parsley, which we boil down in new milk. It is used to cure back ache and kidney disease.
A certain cure for measles is sheep-saffron boiled in milk also. It is also drank.
If we were addicted to warts an old time cure was to go to a blacksmiths forge , and dip the wart nine times in the water in which the blacksmith cools his iron.

Collector
Rosaleen Moore
Gender
female
Address
Askamore, Co. Wexford
Informant
Mr Patrick Gortland
Gender
male
Address
Askamore, Co. Wexford
Language
English