School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 113
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clonmacnoise
- XML Page 113
- XML “A White Hare”
- XML “Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)with white hares because they are fairies.
Told to Ciaran Daly by his sister Ellen.
- 1. If you have a sty in your eye and get a gooseberry thorn and point it nine times at the sty and say "A sty in your eye a lie" it will be cured.
2. The cure for a toothache is not to eat meat on a Friday.
3. A cure for toothache is to boil ginger with fresh milk and put it in your tooth.
4. Another cure is to put soap and polish in it if there is a hole very bad in it.
5. When a seventh son is born in a family, someone gets a worm and puts it in the child's hand, until the worm dies. That child will have a charm and can sure Ring-worm and other diseases.
