School: Baile an Ghaorthaidh, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Ballingeary East, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó hAodha
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- CURESWarts: Get a little flower called “Milk flower” and rub the juice of it to the wart.Scalds and cuts in the hand: Wash the hands in cow’s urine.Whittles: Get a poultice of cow dung and put it to themPains in the back: Mix the white of an egg and an equal quantity of turpentine together, and rub it to the back and chest.Sting of a bee: Take out the sting and rub some blue to the place affected.Measles: Take a sheep’s droppings and boil them in milk and give it to the patient to drink.Chilblains: Get a turnip and cut a hole in it. Put some salt in the hole. Leave it rest for a while, and rub the juice that comes into it to the chilblains.Warts: Go to some house and steal a piece of fat meat and rub the juice of it to the wart.Headache: Hang out a ribbon on St. Bridget’s night and take it in the next morning. Then when the headache comes, put the ribbon around your head and the headache disappears.Pains in the back: Put some sulphur in your boots and stockings and then the pains will go away.Cuts: Cut a fuzzball in two. Then put it to the cut and put a bandage around it.
