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School: Nuadhan (Noan), Dúrlas Éile

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Noan, Co. Tipperary
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Máire Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0564, Page 362

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    To put boiling water on oaten meal and to drink the water of it, is good for a cough.
    To sniff up salt, cures a cold in the head.
    For a sore throat, wash your throat with salt and water. Onions boiled and eaten are good for a cold.
    For a pain in your hip,
    Out a silk thread around your hip, and as the thread wears the pain goes.
    The cure for a wart,
    Rub a snail to it, and put the snail on a white thorn bush, and when the snail withers the wart goes.
    A cure for cuts
    Put a clean cobweb over the cut.
    The cure for whooping cough
    Put the person who has the whooping cough three times under a grey horse's legs, and the cough
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    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
    Nellie Shaw
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Grallagh, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Shaw
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Grallagh, Co. Tipperary