School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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- (continued from previous page)and cures sores and pimples.
For the cure of the running-worm:- Put the green sod in the child's hand, and say three Hail Mary's in honour of the seventh son or daughter.
To go out to the garden and get a green herb and mix that with lard cures whitlow.
Wherever a star falls a white stone will be found. Now whoever finds this stone can cure every ailment.
The old people say that if you rub the juice of the dandelion to warts they will disappear.
The seventh son of a blacksmith can set bone.
If a child gets a sting of a bee, rub blue to it and the pain will go.
The seventh son has the cure of the running-evil.
Roasted salt will cure a sore-throat.
A donkey's milk will cure decline.
If you rub a dock leaf to a sting caused by a nettle it will cure it.
Garlic is good for anyone in decline.
There is a well about four or five miles outside Kells called "Tobar na Brad" that has the cure for a headache.
If you get a snail and put it on a thorn, while the snail is withering the warts will go.
The old people say also that if your godmother got one of the hairy worms on the side of the road and tied it up in a red ribbon and put it round the neck of the person that had the whooping cough it would cure it.
