School: Machaire, An Tulach
- Location:
- Maghera, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593, Page 182
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Chin-cough : To ask a man with a white horse what is the cure for a chin-cough and whatever he would say would cure it.Lumps in the neck:To rub nine irons to them.
Tooth- ache: To rub the brains of a hare to the gum and it would never come again.If you had a sty in your eye to put a gold ring to it.A lump in your forehead: To put a penny to it.Pain in the back :To kill a cock on St.Martin's Day and to rub the blood to the back.Sore Lips:Bog onion to boil it to the sore.
Long ago if a beast were dying the people offered it to St. Martin and in taken a piece of its ear was cut off for the St.Very often the beast got well.it was always a condition that the beast had to be killed afterwards.
- Informant
- John Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Derrynagullion, Co. Clare
