School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)

Location:: Baile an Daighin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 626

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I. In olden times the only cure the people used have for sore eyes was ivy boiled and then the eyes washed with it. The cure they had for ring-worms was a fasting-spit. A person would spit on the hearth and keep rubbing it on until it would be of a dark colour and then rub it on the ring-worms. Soap cut small mixed with sugar was a cure for drawing boils. Long ago when peoples used get headaches they used go to a weaver and he would tie a woollen thread around their heads three times and he would leave it on for a few days and then say a prayer over it.
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Topics
1. gníomhaíochtaí
  cleachtas an leighis
  leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
Language

English
Collector
May Joyce
Gender

Female

Informant
Martin Joyce
Gender

Male
Age

50
Address

An Baile Glas, Co. Mhaigh Eo

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