School: Breac-chluain (B.) (roll number 13389)
- Location:
- Breac-chluain, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Casaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121, Page 360
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- (continued from previous page)butter. When this is rubbed to the skin it will cure this ailment.Cold
(1) A mug of butter-milk and three spoonfulls of oatmeal will cure an ordinary cold.
(2) A lemon containing a lump of sugar roasted will cure hoarseness.Toothache
(1) To get a donkeys tooth and rub it of your own tooth and to keep the tooth in your pocket always is said to be a very good cure for toothache.
(2) There is a certain prayer to say to St Peter and as you say it it will cure the toothache also.Warts
(1) To cure warts get a snail and nib him on the ? and then hang the snail on a thorn bush and while the snail is decaying the wart will be going.
(2) If you say to a person I will buy that wart for a penny the wart will go away.Cure for gravel
(1) Golden Rod boiled and to drink the juice of it. This Rod grows in Michael Devine's garden(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Campbell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Trian Láir, Co. Mhaigh Eo
