School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)Jaundice. People used to call them the "yellow janders". They used boil herbs, one of which is "Blue-Eye", in new milk, and give the patient half a wine-glassful to drink, three times a day.
"Anthony's Fire" or "Shingles". If a man, by name of Keogh, bleeds his finger and puts the blood on the affected parts of the person, it will cure him.
Stye on Eye Take a thorn off a goose-berry bush and point it to the eye nine times "In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost"
Warts. Get a little bag and put a stone in it for every wart you have, and leave the bag on the road. Whoever finds it and picks it up will get the warts, and yours will disappear.
- Collector
- Birdie Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brusselstown, Co. Wicklow
