School: Drumkeelanmore (roll number 12525)
- Location:
- Drumkeelan More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mary Mc Rann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 309
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- When you get a burn put buttermilk and a teaspoonful of baking soda into a cup, blend it up and rub it on the burn.
Ink will also cure it, or flour is good for it when you get the burn
Anybody who ticks a mankeeper is supposed to have the cure of the burn by licking it. A mankeeper is a small insect that lives under a stone or in the water. He is very much like a young frog. He has a long tail.For taking out a thorn
If a thorn goes far into the flesh and cannot be got out with a pin. A foxe's tongue put as a poultice to it is supposed to take it out. If you gather the leaves of a whitethorn bush, pound them, make a poultice of them and put it to place where the thorn is. This poultice is supposed to draw it out.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Lee
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Over 70
