School: Na Mínteóga
- Location:
- Na Mínteoga, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0452, Page 017
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- If a person got a toothache to grind a leg of a lizzard would cure it.
If a person got chincough to drink the milk a ferret would leave after him would cure it.
If a person got thrush, the breath of a duck or goose would cure it.
The seventh son has a cure for killing worm.
If a person had a craobh - fhabhair to rub a gold ring to it for nine mornings would cure it.
If a person had windgall to rub cream to it would cure it.
If a person had ringworm to write your name around it would cure it
If a person had a pain in his side to spit under a stone and bless yourself it would cure it.
If a person had a burn, and to have a dog lick it, would cure it.
If a person had warts, to count them, and to get as many stones as the number of warts, and put them into a paper bag, and throw them on the road, and the person that would take up the paper bag would take the warts from you.
