School: Beacán (C.)
- Location:
- Bekan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 251
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- (continued from previous page)boils, they got the root of comfrey and washed and scraped it and put it on the wounds. A scraped potatoe was also used for burns.
To cure warts they dipped them in the foam of a river, or it was said, that if you found a stone with a little well of water on the top of it and to dip the warts in it that it would cure them.
There were many cures for the whooping cough. It was said, if you met a man on a white horse and asked him for a cure, that the first cure he would say would cure the cough.
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- Annie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
