School: Kyle (An Chill) (roll number 4442)

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1. Cures and Diseases

   

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   The people of my locality have several old cures for pains and diseases.
   I
   Dandelion milk is supposed to be a cure for a wart.
   II
   If you rubbed your hand on a snail and put the snail on a White Thorn tree the old people say that it is a cure for a wart.
   III
   Also if you rubbed your wart on a bag of stones and put them on the road the old people say that it is a great cure for a wart.
   IV
   The old cure for the Whooping Cough was to put the person under a white horse's stomack three times.
   V
   The cure the old people in my locality had for a sore throat was to put a piece of old homecured bacon in a stocking and to tie it around the persons sore throat.
   VI
   The old cures for Rheumatism were to boil Wild Sage in a saucepan and to strain the juice of it into a basin. Then they would put it into a bottle and drink a wine glass of it every morning fasting.
   VII
   Another is to boil Geara and to take a wine glass of it every morning fasting.
   VIII
   If a person had not pure blood the old people would boil dandelion and put the juice in a bottle with a glass of Whiskey through it to preserve it and then to drink it.
   IX
   Dandelion is a very old cure for Liver complaint.
   X
   The old cure for a cold was to boil an onion in milk

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maggie Landers

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cnoc an Mhuine Léith Thiar, Co. Chorcaí

   Informant

   Mr P. Walsh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cnoc an Mhuine Léith Thiar, Co. Chorcaí