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School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)

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Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádhraic de Chlár
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    Cures.
    A cure for sore eyes is to get buachaill an tighe from the gable-end of the house and to rub the juice of it under the eyes. Another cure for sore eyes is to get double refined sugar and to melt it in a cup and to rub it under the eyes with a silk cloth.
    If you put a fox's tongue over a thorn it would draw it out.
    A skin of an elder tree boiled in milk is a cure for yellow jaundice.
    If you went out before a man with a white horse and asked a cure for him. cough and if he only said a drink of water it would cure.
    It is said that the seventh sow without any daughter between has a cure for biles.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomás Ó Raighne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Caherakeeny, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Thomas Reaney
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Caherakeeny, Co. Galway