School: Turloch (roll number 10286)

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   a nutshell round a person's neck is a cure for fever.
   They say that if a person is very bad with the whooping cough three hairs from the cross of an as's back will cure the person, but they say the ass will die.
   The old people would not let you eat cheese if it was long in the house. They say that the mice might be nibbling it, and you would get a sore throat.

   

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2. Cures

   

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   Long ago there were no doctors bottles, or doctors cures. Every herb that grew was a cure for some disease. Long ago when a person used take a pain they got a herb out in the field called the ladies mantle, and boiled it, and gave it to the person to drink. At other times they used used to give the person another herb called buachaill

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Conway

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lack West, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Conway

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   55

   Address

   Turlough, Co. Mayo