School: Cúl Mín, Inis
- Location:
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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- Get as many pebbles as you have warts and leave them on the road and it will cure them or if you rubbed water you would get in a stone and it would cure them. To cure a sore mouth shove the child out under an asses belly. To cure ring worm rub parrifin oil to it. If a gander breathes into your mouth it will cure chin coughf . Roasted beans will cure a pain in your stomac. To stop blood leave a cobweb down on the cut.
- Collector
- Michael Molony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Molony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare
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“To cure a pain in your teeth put a hairy moll up to your jaw.”
To cure a pain in your teeth put a hairy moll up to your jaw. A dock leave will cure a burn from a nettle. If a calf had the
rugha-paste give him soot and salt. If a horse had a sore eye chew an ivy leaf and spit it into his eye. The smell of a burned cloth will cure a horse's cold (no title)
“A gold ring will cure a sty in your eye.”
A gold ring will cure a sty in your eye. Comfree is a cure for a burn.
Chicken-weed will ripen a drop.
