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School: Shanakill, Roscrea

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Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Seán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 148

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

    “The cure is to get a snail and rub it to a wart, and then to make the Sign of the Cross on the wart with the snail and then stick the snail on a thorn again...”

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    of the fright he got. The blacksmith won the five shillings.
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  2. Local Cures

    “Bees wax and honey would cure the "thrush"...”

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    Bees wax and honey would cure the "thrush"
    Bran and flour and butter-milk would cure a sore finger.
    If you had ring-worms would cure them.
    If you had a sore hand and to find a hole in a rock and it full of water and to wash your hand it it and the sore would get better.
    To put salt on a pot-lid on coals and leave it until it would get brown and then put it in a silk stocking and it would cure the sore throat.
    If you are walking through a field and you found a rock full of water and make the Sign of the Cross on a wart and it would cure it.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Maher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mr Maher
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shanakill, Co. Tipperary

  3. Local Cures

    “Common sugar ground fine and put on a child's tongue would cure the thrush...”

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    Common sugar ground fine and put on a child's tongue would cure the thrush.
    Make nine knots on a straw and rub it to a wart and it would cure it.
    Lamp-oil or turpentine rubbed to a tooth-ache would cure it .
    Marsh-Mallows - name of a flower- would cure a sprain.
    Sulphur and lard mixed together would cure a sore
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