School: Seamar
- Location:
- Shammerdoo, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Loideáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 16
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- (continued from previous page)for a cure for whooping cough whatever he recommends is a sure cure.
Irons were sometimes allowed to get very rusty and the rust when filed off and mixed with water made an excellent tonic for people who were run down.
To eat a frog was supposed to cure ague and toothache.
A bit of the rope used by a person who hanged himself was supposed to prevent epileptic fits. It is said that if you step over a person while in a fit you take the ailment.
The tongue of a fox was kept in each house for taking out thorns.
The bark of a thorn tree without thorns was boiled and used as a cure for sore eyes. There is a tree of this kind in the old cemetery in Kilkelly.
A hair from a dog that bit a person was used to cure the bite.
In olden times there was a person in each village for curing headaches. He did this by measuring the head with strings and saying certain prayers. When he had the measurements take he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Lynskey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Lynskey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
