School: An Fhiacail
- Location:
- Feakle, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Harrachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)on the landing of a stairs. The long hair worn at the time by both sexes was very necessary in the operation.
After getting a hair cut you should collect the hair and burn it in the fire so that baldness would not dare disfigure you.
Rainwater got in the fissures of rocks was supposed to remove warts.
The tongue of a fox coaxed out a thorn that a pin or needle had failed to remove.
Bees were got to sting a limb affected with Rheumatism as the old people said "it took poison to kill poison". Stings of nettles were borne for the same purpose.
- Collector
- Tadhg Ó Tuathaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garraun, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Tuohy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Garraun, Co. Clare
