School: Ros Nuala (Rossnowlagh) (roll number 11599)
- Location:
- Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)A cure for mumps. If the person who has the cure puts a horse’s bridle on the sick person’s head and drives them to a pool of water and makes them drink three times in the name of the father, son, and Holy Ghost, it is said to cure it. 4. To rub the green leaf of a dock on a nettle sting is said to cure it. 5. If anyone has a stye on the eye and plucks ten gooseberry thorns, throws away the tenth and points the remaining nine at the sore, three times in the name of the father, son and holy ghost it is said to cure it. 6. To cure hiccough one should swallow three times without drawing breath or drink from the wrong side of a cup.
- Collector
- Ben C Stronge
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Stronge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal
