School: Magoney
- Location:
- Maigh Gamhnaí, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: M. Ní Mhaolchraoibhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0932, Page 337
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- Local Cures
Áine Ní Mháirtín,
Cnoe,
Inis-Caoin
Aois 14 bl.
Whooping cough. The God parent of the child buys it a red ribbon which is to be tied around its neck during the illness. 2) To administer the drinks to the patient in the skull of a dead pepon.
3) To boil the blessed thistle and give the substance of this plant to the child as a drink. 4) Give the patient a drink of milk of which a ferret has drank a portion. 5) Take three blades of grass off the grave of a near relative of the patients and boil them in milk and give it as a drink.
Warts.
To find a black snail when not searching for him, rub him to the wart and hang him on a thorn, as the snail is withering so will the warts. 2) To find this certain stone with a hole in it. This hole is filled with water wash your warts in this water.
Spool of the breast.
This cure is made by using an empty tumbler a blessed candle and a ha' penny.
Headache. Tie a string of a dead persons wrapper around the head.
Large veins. Boil a white turnip and wear on the leg as a poultice.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Áine Ní Mháirtín
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cnoc na gCearnamán, Co. Mhuineacháin
