School: Lisín na hEilte (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Lisín na hEilte, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Séadhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 122
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- There are a lot of cures besides going to a doctor. The cures are in the following.
It is said that if you got burned with boiling water and you rubb breadsoda of it it would cure it.
If a thorn was within in your finger melted wax should be put on a cloth and tiedet round your finger it would draw it out.
If you had a tooth ache and you got a piece of cotton and put a little sup of oil in it and then you put it down in the hole of your tooth the tooth ache would go.
If there were cracks in your hand and you rubbed wax of it it would cure it.
If there were warts growing in your hand or foot and you got a snal and rubbed him of it and then stick him on a thorn bush, then when the snale would be withered the wart would wither.
If a person has boils the juice of garlic a little bulb like an onion will cure them.If you meet a man with a white horse and ask him what will cure the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Knight
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cluain Caoin, Co. na Gaillimhe
