School: Tunnyduff
- Location:
- Tonyduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cathaláin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 103
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tunnyduff
- XML Page 103
- XML “Old Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)on a sprained limb will cure it. Dried goose manure is a cure for chilblains. A copper wire worked through a raw potatoe and carried in the pocket is a cure for rheumatism. Garlic worm in ones boots will cure a cold. If a person washes his face in the dew on a May morning and lets it dry off with the sun he will not be sunburnt that year. If a person who has warts comes across a white snail accidentally and rubs it on his warts it will cure them. He must tie the snail or stick it on a bush and as the snail wastes away the warts fade.From different people locally.
