School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Kildavin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0911, Page 208
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- In olden times the people cured the whooping cough with the hair of some person that never saw his own father, one whose father had died before he was born. The way they did it was they got a piece of the person's hair and boiled it in fresh milk then they strained it and gave the milk to the person with the whooping cough to drink. Then they get the hair and tie it in a piece of paper. Then the person is to wear it round his neck until he is well of the whooping cough.
- Collector
- Annie Hayden
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Hayden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Crowsgrove, Co. Carlow
- Long ago the cure for a tooth - ache was to roast snails and make a poultice by putting them on red flannel. Leave it on for twenty four hours. A very old cure was to put a frog in your moth and close it.(continues on next page)
