School: Muclach
- Location:
- Mucklagh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)pull it out with your own tooth and you will never have a toothache.Anyone that has consumption to drink donkeys milk and they will be cured.A child with whooping cough - Catch a frog and make the sign of the cross three times on the childs mouth and it will be cured and let the frog away unharmed.Goose grease cures a backache or pains in the joints.A child that has whooping cough - Put it under a donkey's legs and it will be cured.Goose-bery thorns cures styes in the eyes. Prod it with nine thorns in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost.If a father and mother are of the same name - Their children's blood would be able to cure the wild-fire.Pot dried salt cures the mumps.Cold tea cures sore eyes.
Cold tea cures burns also.The whites of eggs and spring water are good when people have the lining off their stomachs.Garlic steeped in whiskey cures bad longs. The roots of cowslips and barks(continues on next page)
