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School: Rooskey

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Roosky, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Martin J. Casey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 226

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    In my village there are many old cures and here are some of them. A cure for sore eyes is to get some house leek and squeeze it and drop the juice into the eyes. The cure for the Chin-Cough is to ask a man on a white horse what is his cure for the Chin-Cough what ever cure he tells you that is supposed to be the cure. A cure for the ringworm is the person who has the ringworm goes to the boy or girl who has the cure, he or she would leave a worm on the diseased part then breaths on it so then the ringworm would be cured.
    A cure for a sprained foot is to put a string round the sprained part of the foot, then it would get cured. A cure for warts is to put a bit of bacon on the warts, leave it on for four days when you take it off bury it in the ground and when it decays the warts will fall off.
    Received from
    Mary Hunt
    Culmore,
    Rooskey.
    Lillie Tonra
    Culmore,
    Rooskey.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Hunt
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Roosky, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Lillie Tonra
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Roosky, Co. Mayo