1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Coill Mhór

School: Coill Mhór (roll number 16780)

Location:
Cuilmore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Liam Ua Claidhimh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0123, Page 42

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0123, Page 42

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Coill Mhór
  2. XML Page 42
  3. XML “Old Cures and Charms”

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

  1. Old Cures and Charms (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    and the cure he will tell you make that cure and it is said that the cough will go. When people used to have warts on their hands or on their feet they used to get black snail and they used to hang the snail on a thorn bush. According when the snail would be weathering the warts would be going. Another cure for warts is to wash the warts with water on a limestone and say three Hail Mary's and three Our Father's and it is said the warts will go and another cure is to throw three spits on them every morning.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Jim Heaney
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    81
    Address
    Cuillaun, Co. Mayo