School: The Vale (An Gleann)
- Location:
- Leiter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Brolcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 406
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- The cure of the wild-fire was effected by rubbing a gold piece (sovereign) on the part affected and by saying some prayer.
- The disease which may result from the bite of a mad dog is prevented by rubbing a red hot iron to the part bitten.
- To cure the whooping cough get a piece of Blessed Thistle. Boil it in water for some time and then boil it in milk for some time. This concoction when drank is a splendid cure.
- To cure warts get a stone with a hole in it in which there is water. Dip the water in it for ten mornings and on the eleventh morning the wart will be gone.
