School: Aghadachor (Aghador)
- Location:
- Aghadachor, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Máire T. Ní Bhréasláin
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- (continued from previous page)good for a weak heart.
Kidney trouble: Bogbine is good for it.
- Measles: Whiskey or boiled nettles.
Mumps: Any person whose father and mother are the same na,e can cure the mumps by putting a donkey's halter on the child once a day for thee days, taking to the nearest stream and giving him three sups of waters each time.
Rheumatism: Whale oil.
Burns and scalds: Baking soda and sowr milk.
Boils and Blisters: Boil leaves of a boutry bush, and make a plaster of it,
Evil: The people say that the seventh son of a family can cure the evil.
Warts: If someone would give you a leaf of tobacco and when not thinking on it run it on the wart, to put it under a stone then.
Rose: Get it rubbed with the person who has the cure. If a bone is put into a childs hand when it is born, it will have the cure.
Toothache: Pick out the white spot on a frogs back, hang it on a tree and when it withers the toothache will go away. - Informant
- Patrick Coyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Kill, Co. Dhún na nGall
