School: Claonar agus Carraig, Cill an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Killavullen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Síothcháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0372, Page 249
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Claonar agus Carraig, Cill an Mhuilinn
- XML Page 249
- XML “Old Cures”
- XML “Old Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)When a certain weed that grows in cornfields is rubbed to warts they are cured.
- To cure a bad lingering cough one should go out in the early morning and collect small dew snails off the grass. These should be boiled in milk which should be drun when strained.
To cure a bad sore hand get a bit of soap cut it up and roll it in fine sugar until it is soft. Place this on the sore hand and leave it on overnight. This will draw all badness out of hand.
For blood poison get some cow manure and poultice the affected spot with same.
To stop bleeding put some pig manure on the wound.
To cure warts get a pebble for every wart on your hands and rub a pebble to each wart. Place the pebbles in a paper and leave them at a cross-roads. The
