School: Machaire, An Tulach
- Location:
- Maghera, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593, Page 177
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Toothache: To catch a lizard and rub him to the teeth.Plaster for a burn.Get the bark of the oak,bee's wax and un-salted butter.Then boil them and strain them.Then put them on the burn. Stye:T o look out through a gold ring three times.A sting:To press the hollow end of the barrell of a key over the wound. An Earache=Put an alder stick in the fire and leave one end out .Put a spoon under it and get the juice and put it into the ear.
Chen-cough=Put a child under an ass's belly or another cure is when you see a man with a grey horse ask him for a cure and whatever he would say that would cure the chin-cough .Warts: To rub the water that would be lodged in a stone to the wart.Head-ache=To give three visits to a blessed and do fifteen rounds each time.
Sick calf:To cut the worm's knot over the calf's back.
- Informant
- Patrick Degidon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rylane, Co. Clare
