School: Cnoc an Éin, Cuinche
- Location:
- Knockanean, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0594, Page 168
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Whooping Cough- give milk to a ferret and do not let him drink it all. What is left is considered a cure for the whooping cough. If a man passed on a white horse whom you were not expecting, ask him has he any cure for the cough and whatever he says cures the cough.
Stye- To look through a gold ring is considered a cure for a stye.
Burn- It is said that the person who licks the lizard has a cure in his tongue for a burn.
The breast bone down- An old woman use cure the breast bone, She used put the patient lying on a table, and put a tumbler on the pit of the stomach. There used be a candle lighting near the patient. She used pretend she had it cured,
The Walshe’s blood- used cure St. Anthony’s fire.
Bernadette Mc Inerney
Told by Patrick Mc Inerney
Killawinna. Quin.
- Collector
- Bernadette Mc Inerney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Inerney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Killawinna, Co. Clare
