School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)rub a black worm on it
If a person has hiccough take three sips of water without drawing your breath
If a person has a ring-worm write your name around it for a week and it will go
If a person has thrush put a goose's bill into his mouth and her breath will cure it
If a person has corns let him take off his shoes and go out a dewy morning and the dew will melt them
If a person has chilbains put a white stone into a match box and put on a path and the first person to pick it up would get the chilblains
- When a needle goes in through your leg by the way they used draw it out in the olden days was to get a fox's tongue and leave it in salt and water for some time and after about a week or two take it out and put it on the place where the needle went in and after five minutes the tongue would draw it out.
Boil two or three ozes of dandlion root(continues on next page) - Collector
- D. Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
