School: Glostremin (roll number 15441)
- Location:
- Glasdrumman, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Maire Nic an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0212, Page 187
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- (continued from previous page)A stye on an eye. Pluck ten goosberry thorns point nine of them at it and throw the tenth away.
Warts. Rub a black snail to them and hang them on a bush and as he lies the warts will disappear or it you get water in a stone without looking for it and rub it to them.
Toothache. A dead person's tooth is a cure for a toothache.
Hiccough. put your fingers in your ears and take a drink of water is a cure for hiccough.
Toothache. Steal a piece of a candle which was burning in a corpeshouse is a cure for a toothache.
Measles. To boil nettle roots and drink the juice is a cure for the measles.
Chincough. The father and mother of the one surname when they are married have the cure of chincough. The seventh son of any family has a cure of any one thing he likes.
The mumps. The seventh son has the cure of mumps.
The jaundice. A child that never saw its father has the cure of the Jaundice.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Sruhaun, Co. Leitrim
