School: Cúl Árann (Clochar)
- Location:
- Coolaran, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr Fionnbharr Nic Chárthaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0020, Page 0100
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- (continued from previous page)The cure for yellow gandis is to boil the bark of a certain tree and drink the juice of it.
The cure for warts is to rub a black snail three times on them and hang him up on a tree and as the snail melts away the warts are going away. Another is if you found water in a hole without looking for it, rub it three times on the warts.
To put a peice piece of tobaco in the tooth will take away a toothache and the old people say that if you that if you keep a horses tooth in your pocket you will never get a toothache.
The cure for dry rot in a sheep's foot is a bit of blue stone and to put a spit of tobaco in a blind sheep's eye will cure it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolaran, Co. Galway
- Informant
- William Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
