School: Ráth Séideóg (roll number 8786)
- Location:
- Rashedoge, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Brighid Ní Dhomhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1104, Page 92
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- 1. A dogs lick is a cure
2. If there is a family where seven boys are born the seventh will have a cure for "the evil."
3. The substance of boiled nettles or briars sweetened is a very good cure for a cough.
4. If a child has whooping cough a cure is to let a donkey eat oat bread then the child to eat the crumbs.
5. When a person has a "sty" in the eye it can be cured by making the sign with a married woman's ring, or by piercing it with a gooseberry bush stab.
6. If a child had a sore mouth it can be cured if a person who never saw his father blows his breath three times on it before sunrise.
7. It is said if you have a lot of warts and you are going along and not thinking of them at the time should you happen to find a little hole of water in a rock and you wash your hands in it in a short time your warts will disappear.
8. Another cure for warts is to cut a potato(continues on next page)
