School: Beale (1) (roll number 7660)
- Location:
- Beal, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Martin Beasley
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Page 021
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Beale (1)
- XML Page 021
- XML “Old Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)The local cure for the "thrush" which is sometimes called "crease collar" is to get a gander and put his bill into the child's mouth once each morning for nine mornings and it will cure it. The gander must be kept in the house the night before and he must be left fasting.
Another cure for the "thrush".
Any man who was born after his father's death breathe into the child's mouth three times each morning for nine mornings. This is said to cure the "thrush" but he must be also fasting. This disease is found out because there are white spots on the child's tongue and he is not able to eat or drink.
For a toothache: The old people used use soot and salt for a toothache and they say it used cure it.
For boils: People use white bread and salts for boils.
- Collector
- Michael Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doon West, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Patrick Griffin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Doon West, Co. Kerry
