School: Baile Bran, Ogonollae
- Location:
- Ballybran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0588, Page 027
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- Teethaches - The old people say that if you put a frog in your mouth or to go to a grave yeard and to get a tooth out of a skull and to rub it to the out-side of the jaw you would never have any teethaches.
Burns - It is said that anybody who would lick a lizard would have a cure for a burn in their tongue.
Boils - To point nine irons at it.
Rhumatism - To carry a potato in one's pocket.
A pain in the back - To eat egg shells
Sore eyes - To rub spittle to them every morning for three mornings or to put a gold ring to them
Whooping Cough - Eat a fettet's leavings or to drink three cups of spring water every morning
A pain in the back - Eat egg shells
A pain in the stomach - Warm a plate in hot water and leave it on the stomach
Stopping blood - Put the key of the door down the persons back who is bleeding or to put moss to the cut
Worms in cattle. To cut the worm's knot over the animal that is suffering from the worms.
Black Leg. Stick a piece of copper wire under the neck of the animal that has black let.
A running sore - Rub a foxes tongue to it
Pox in pigs.Let the pigs out (?) for three mornings(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sarah Mulcahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynagleragh, Co. Clare
