School: Baile Mhic Dáibhid (Ballydevitte) (roll number 3854)
- Location:
- Ballydevitt Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mac an Luain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 281
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- (continued from previous page)(1) Paraffin Oil is a cure for Chilblains.(2) Gooseberry stabs for sty on the eye. One must go to a goatberry bush pull ten stabs then throw away one and point the other nine to the sty one by one very soon the sty will disappear.(3) The application of a roasted onion to a sore ear will cure it(4) A stocking of roasted salt tied round a person’s neck is an old cure for a sore throat(5) The disease called the Mumps is cured in the following way; The Winkers of a Doney are put on the sick person and he is lead to a stream between two townlands. The person must drink some of the water and this process must be done three times before the cure is completed.(6) Nettle-tea got by boiling nettles is an old cure for blood-purifying.(7) Mistletoe for St. Vitus Dance.
- Collector
- Martin Morris
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Doonan, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Martán Ó Muirghir
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Doonan, Co. Donegal
