School: Kilcalf, Tulach an Iarainn
- Location:
- Kilcalf Mountain, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Cáit Breannóc
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- (continued from previous page)this is rubbed with a sponge.
- In olden times people had no doctors but they had cures for different things.
For curing thrush a posthumous child was got to breathe on the tongue of the person who had thrush.
For curing a toothache people put some salt in a piece of cloth and put it up to their faces.
For curing the whooping cough people drank the milk a ferret left after him.
For curing cuts they got a weed called 'the devil's bit' and rubbed it to the cut.
For curing a burn they licked a live lizard and then licked the burn.
For curing sore eyes the people used to go to a holy well on our farm and wash their eyes with water.- Informant
- Patrick Mac Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Glennaglogh, Co. Waterford