School: Cill Chonaill (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Kilconnell, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0043, Page 0258
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- 258Local CuresRingworm
If a person cut a black cat and got three drops of blood from the cut and rub it onto the ringworm making the sign of the cross. TO meet a man riding on a white horse and ask him for a cure and whatever he would say would cure the ringworm. Wildfire
Measure the wildfire with a gold ring. Mix a spit with ashes and rub it on it. Toothache
To get a black snail and rub it on it tooth then throw it on a thorny bush. To fill your mouth with cold water and turn your back to the fire and when the water boils the toothache will be gone.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Una Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Callow, Co. Galway
- (continued from previous page)258killed he told them to kill himself now that they would never get the secret. The two Danes are supposed to be buried in a field not far from the fort. Lena Kenny
Hillswood,
Kilconnell.
