School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Uachtar Ard, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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- (continued from previous page)on the boil is supposed to cure it.
Pain the ear: A cure for a pain in your ear is to melt butter and to deep a seaping hook in the butter and then to let three drops of the butter fall of the reaping hook into you rear.
Nose bleed: To tie a bit of string on the small finger of your left hand would stop the nose bleed
Toothache: To smoke a pipe or to put a frog in your mouth is good for toothache
Stys: To stick a thorn of a gooseberry tree in a sty would cure it.
Chin cough: To drink the milk a ferret would leave after him would cure the chin cough.
Mumps: To meet a man on a white horse the first thing in the morning and if you asked him for a cure for the mumps and whatever he says it will cure it
Warts: To steal a bit of meat and to bury it in the ground and when the meat would be rotten the wart would be gone.
- Collector
- Áine Seóighe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Uachtar Ard, Co. na Gaillimhe
