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School: Eiscreach (roll number 13945)

Location:
Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0153, Page 144

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    Wild fire: Write your name before and after it with ink.
    Sore eyes: Get water from under a galvanised roof, and wash your eyes with it.
    Sore neck: Put salt in a woollen cloth around your neck.
    Hiccough: To get a fright, and it will go.
    Jaundice: Your skin will turn yellow, and boil the root of a daffodil, and drink it.
    Head-ache: If you have a pain in the top of your head, you must get your head measured.
    A pain in your ear: Put wool in your ear, and put castor-oil on it.
    A Burn: Rub your tongue on a lizard, and rub it on your burn.
    A duct in your eye: Get it licked out by the tongue of somebody else.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie E. O' Boyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corvoderry, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Moyles
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Formoyle, Co. Mayo