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School: Coill na Leac

Location:
Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Mac Geibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0976, Page 015

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    What can go up the chimney down, and cannot come down the chimney up.
    Answer - An Umbrella.
    What stands on one leg, with it's heart in its head.
    Answer - A head of cabbage.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Cures

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    Cure for mumps - Put a pair of asse's winkers on the person's head and lead the person round a house in the name of the father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
    Cure for Measles - is to give the person hot punch, and keep him warm.
    Cure for chin cough - is to dip the person in the hoper of a mill.
    Cure for the burn - is cow's manure.
    Cure for the sty - is to get ten thorns of a gooseberry bush, point nine thorns at the sty, and throw the tenth one away.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie O' Hare
    Gender
    Female