School: Béal Átha Gearr
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0200
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- (continued from previous page)To remove a ring from a pig's nose after killing it. The ring will cure a toothache by leaving it against the tooth.If you roast a potato and put it between two pieces of clean lint and put it to a sore throat it will cure it.An ivy leaf is able to draw the badness out of any sore.If you boil a gizzard of a hen in new milk and drink the milk it is supposed to cure a stomach ulcer.
- 1) If you tie a red cloth to a cow's tail, when the cow calves the fairies can never take the milk or the butter.2) It is not lucky to take out the ashes on a Sunday morning because if you do you are throwing away(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Briain
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballinamore Bridge, Co. Galway
