School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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- (continued from previous page)Cures by crawling under animals legs.
If we crawl under the legs of an untrained foal three times we have the cure for the measels.
Seventh son.
If there be seven sons in the one family, and that they are all born in succession - the seventh one has a cure.
- A Burn
Apply baking soda, paraffin oil, olive oil, unsalted butter, ivy leaves and soap. The tongue that licks a mankeeper cures a burn. Swelling
Apply roast chicken weed, potatoe water, bog water, boiled turnips or Bathe in hot water.To stop bleeding
Apply a cobweb, moss and stopping, nose bleeding place a piece of blotting paper under the tongue or put something cold to the back of your neck.The Whooping Cough
Eat bread baked by a woman whose maiden name was that of her husband.The Measels
Make nettle tea and drink it or drink whiskey and milk mixedFor Ringworm
Apply Fairy Finger leaves and also washing soda(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peggy Newton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim
