School: Croisín (Crusheen) (B. & C.)

Location:
Crusheen, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Mac Bruaideadha
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  1. 12
    Cures. 29 -3- 37.
    Long ago before there were any Doctors the people had cures of their own.This is a cure for warts ,to get three pices of an elder tree growing out of the one stem,but you should get it by chance and to rub it to them to the warts.here is a cure for the Measles,to give a ferret milk and what he would leave over to give it to the person that would have the Measles and it would cure them .This a cure for the Whooping Cough ,if you met a man with a white horse by chance and ask him in Irish what ever he would tell you give the sick person it would cure them .This is a
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Mac Cormac
    Gender
    Male