School: Robertson (roll number 13372)
- Location:
- Ballintra, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Somhairle Mac Ádhaimh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 147
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- It is said that any body who licked an arch slave three times in the three best names they had the cure for a burn in their tongue. A cure for the toothache was to rub the cheek with a bit of a sheet that a corpse had been layed on. If you took it in your foot it is supposed to be a cure to bury it. You go out to the field and some one will have to go with you and make a hole with a spade, put your foot in. It is then covered up with clay for say half an hour for three days, you have to act this for three days. Jaundice can be cured by boiling different herbs in milk. It must be taken every morning till you are better. An old cure for cuts was to rub them well with salt and others put new lime on.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Roland Greene
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromore, Co. Donegal
