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School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)

Location:
Dring, Co. Longford
Teacher:
James Drum
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    A cure for a sore throat was fill a stocking full of salt and tie it round the neck.
    A cure for an ear-ache is a little bag or pad of hot bran placed to the ear.
    A cure for tooth-ache is to take a straw from the Crib and keep it, and rub it to the back of the tooth that is painful.
    A cure for a thorn is soap and sugar.
    A cure for whooping cough is to put on a horse's winkers and lead the person that has it in and out through the pig-stye three times or under a horse's belly.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. charms (~104)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Address
    Ballinulty Lower, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Joe Farrelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Dring, Co. Longford