School: Buidheachair (Rockcorry)
- Location:
- Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Énrí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0945, Page 140
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- (continued from previous page)Stomach troubles — Caraway seed tea taken. Hot milk and ginger taken.
Rheumatism — Elder flower tea, Dock root tea, Celery tea taken. Carry a raw potato in packet.
Whooping Cough — Catch a trout in the river, and bring it in water to the afflicted child. Give the sufferer three drops out of the fish’s mouth and then liberate the trout in the exact spot you found it. Another cure is to give the sufferer a spoonful of milk left by a ferret.
Bleeding — A spider’s web rubbed to the wound will hold the bleeding.
Love sickness — Gather a handful of cherry leaves from across the full-moon. Boil in the blood of a black rabbit, take three mornings in succession and your love will be requited.
Black-ache — The skin of a rabbit caught on the mountain to be worn next the body on the afflicted part for three days and three nights. On the fourth day the skin is buried and the pain with it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elsie Williamson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Derrykinard, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs J. Williamson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Derrykinard, Co. Monaghan
