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    3. If your nose was bleeding to put a cold key to your back would stop it. Blue would cure a sting of a bee. Salt cures boils. A bit of an orange would also cure a sting of a bee.
    3. If you had a sty on your eye and if you put a gold ring around it, it would cure it. If you had a ring worm a gold ring would cure it also.
    Written by -
    Neil Conroy
    Ballygowan
    Abbey
    Loughres
    Co. Galway
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Neil Conroy
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Michael Molloy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Baile an Ghabhann, Co. na Gaillimhe