School: Ferbane (B.)
- Location:
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 170
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- Sore throat: Put roasted salt in a stocking and put it around your neck going to bed and it will relieve your throat again morning.
Swollen Face: Get camomile and boil it, and when it well boiled, take it up and strain it and bathe your face.
A Cut Finger: Get a cobweb and put it on your finger and it will stop the bleeding.
A Burn: A man in Lemonaghan is noted for curing burn by licking the burn with his tongue. He first licks a lizard, an "alp luacra."
Cure for Warts: A man in Kilcolgan, Michael Rourke, is noted for curing a wart by getting straws and making them in the from of a cross and putting them on the wart. Then he buries the straws and the wart disappears, as the straws rot.
A stye in the eye. This is cured(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Hubert Devery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
