School: Cathair Loisgreáin (C)
- Location:
- Cathair Loistreáin, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Máire Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0508
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- (continued from previous page)6. The cure for a headache is to tie a piece of woolen thread round your head.
7. Another cure for a headache is to snuff up the teapot when it is boiled, and then to drink a cup of hot tea without any food immediately after.
8. The cure for a sore foot is to get soot, soap and fine sugar and mix them together, and put them on a piece of paper and leave it against the foot.
9. Cure for a sore eye is to was it in cold black tea
10. Cure for a whittle is to get a white bandage and put a snail into it, and tie it round the finger.
11. For a swelled jaw, rub the first spit you throw out in the morning of it.
12. Cure for a toothache is to take three smokes of a pipe
- Collector
- Katie Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Cill na Manach, Co. na Gaillimhe
