School: Araglin (C.), Cill Úird (roll number 9248)
- Location:
- Airglinn, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Cheallacháin
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- I heard my mother say that if you had warts and if you were walking along the road and saw a stone with a hollow in the middle of it and he hollow full of water and if you rubbed the water to the warts it would cure them.
Another cure is this. If you fell and put a lump in your forehead they say put a penny up to it and it would cure it.
If you had sore teeth and if you put pepper and salt mixed together into them it would cure them.
When you burn your hand if you put a small grain of breadsoda up to it it would not let it burn.
My father told me if you had a sore leg and to let a dog lick it it would cure it.
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- Informant
- Mrs Moye
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cúil Mhúcháin, Co. Chorcaí
