School: An Cruachán (roll number 5243)
- Location:
- Croaghan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Chearra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 345
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- About the time of my great grandmother people did not believe in doctors very much. They sought cures from herbs and plants.
A stye on your eye was cured by a prick with a gooseberry throrn or by rubbing it with a black snail and then sticking the snail on a bush. This administration was also applied to a wart.
Some people believe in well for curing ill.
Chilblains were cured by holding ones feet as near to a hot iron as one dare.
They also rubbed chilblains with an onion.
Cuts were stopped from bleeding by tying a cobweb round it or by a fasting spit
By eating watercress three times a day rashes were cured or by the lick of a dog or cat
Hiccough was cured and is cured still be someone giving you a scare or by eating sugar
Bluebag was applied to a sting of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Vickie Edwards
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygreen, Co. Donegal
