School: Ballincor
- Location:
- Ballincor Demesne, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Julia Liffey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 177
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- Whooping Cough : If you drink the leavings of a ferret's milk it will cure the whooping cough.
Sore Throat : If you put the foot of your stocking around your neck at night it will cure a sore throat.
(2) Drinks of hot buttermilk at night.
Ringworm : If a man had sevensons or seven daughters and if they were born in succession the seventh would be able to cure ringworm.
Warts : If you rubbed a raw potato to a wart and buried the potato as the potato rots the wart will disappear.
(2) Pick the wart with a blade of har and bury the bit of hay.
Stye : Rub the stye with a fasting spit every morning until it disappears.
(3) rub it with a gold wedding ring until it disappears.
- Collector
- Geoffrey Liffey
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Ann Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
