School: An Clochar, Roscrea
- Location:
- Ros Cré, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: An Mháthair M. Ní Thuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0549, Page 026
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- (continued from previous page)whoever picked it up picked up the warts also.Cut Finger:
To get a spider's web and to put it on the cut finger was another old cure. Many of the old people belived (sic) it.Whooping Cough:
If a child had whooping cough the old people put it under a donkey's stomach three times and that was supposed to cure the child.Ringworm:
In olden days is a person had ringworm he put his mother's ring on it, and made the sign of the cross on it. This cure was also applied to a sty.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Goffney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Goffney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
