School: Cooley
- Location:
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 368
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- (continued from previous page)after the funeral. As the corpse wastes away the warts die away.A cure for indigestion was to eat a dandelion leaf or a leaf of bogbine.A cure for the toothache was to roast figs and put them on the sore jaw.
- Years ago people had different ways of curing their different ailments. For the toothache they rubbed their gums with baking-soda or pepper. Another remedy was to heat salt and put it into a stocking and hold it to the part of the face where the toothache was.There are different cures for warts. Every morning for nine mornings to rub the warts with a fasting spittal or strong washing soda water. Another cure for warts is to get a snail and rub it on the warts then bury the snail. When the snail is dead the warts will be gone. Two years ago I had two big warts on my finger and a man in Moville cured them by spitting on his thumb(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ruby Gibson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gulladoo, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Gibson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gulladoo, Co. Donegal
