School: Doire an Céise (C )

Location:: Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 242

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Long ago the people could not afford to get a doctor if they were ill, and they used herbs to cure their diseases. The green scum which grows on a bog-hole is a cure for a severe head-ache. The cure for a stye was to get a branch of a gooseberry bush with nine thorns on it, rub it to your eye for nine mornings, and throw a thorn away each morning. At the end of this time the stye will be better. A poultice of chicken - weed is a cure for a sprain.
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Topics
1. activities
  medical practice
  folk medicine (~11,815)
Language

English
Collector
Una Connolly
Gender

Female
Local Cures

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2. To cure a wart rub a sliced potato to it and then bury the potato deep down in the ground, when the potato rots the warts will go away.
The seventh girl of a family has the

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