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

Location:
An Choill, Co. Chorcaí
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0397, Page 080

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  1. The people of my locality have some old cures for diseases.
    1 The cure for rheumatism is to get wild sage and mint and boil them together.
    2The old cure for the thrush is to go under a white donkey's stomach three times and kiss the cross on his back.
    3 There is a well in my locality in which there is said to be a cure for rheumatism. The cure is, if you find a stone with a hole in it and water in the hole and to drink the water.
    4 Rag-weed is a cure for cuts either on people or on animals.
    5 Mull porter is an old cure for the measles.
    6 Chicken Pox. Warm porter and milk is a cure for the chicken pox.
    7 Mumps. Boiled milk and salt us a cure for the mumps.
    8 Whooping Cough. To cut a piece off a goat's ear and tie it to the child's dress, its supposed to be an old cure for the whooping cough.
    9 Warts. If you got a snail and rub it to the warts and then put the snail up on a white thorn tree, and when the snail would die the warts would go away.
    10 Headaches. To get a red cloth and put it out on a white-thorn- tree on Saint Bridget's night. The cloth is blessed and if you had a headache the cloth
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    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Sheehan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Baile Uí Chaoilte, Co. Chorcaí
    Informant
    Mr J. Sheehan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Baile Uí Chaoilte, Co. Chorcaí