School: Lusmagh

Location:
Gortarevan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
T. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0814, Page 153

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0814, Page 153

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  1. 1. If you get the jaw bone of a hedge-hog and carry it in your pocket it would cure a tooth-ache.
    2. If you put sheep-dung on a wart it would cure it.
    3. If you got a snail and rub it on a wart and then put him on a thorn bush according as the snail is dying away the wart will be going away.
    4. If you rub a gold ring on a sty on your eye three times and it will cure it.
    5. If a person has rheumatism and carry a potato in his pocket and it would cure it.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Sullivan
    Gender
    Male