School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)while he passes three times under the donkey he will be cured.
If you drink water and keep looking at the blade of a knife while drinking cures whooping - cough.
Rheumatism.
To carry a potatoe in your pocket it is a cure for rheumatism.
Seal oil is a cure for rheumatism.
Goose oil is a cure for rheumatism.
Sloak which grows on the rocks gives a relief to people who suffer from rheumatism.
Sulphur added to buttermilk and taken as a drink is a cure for rheumatism.
Sea weed and salt water is a cure for rheumatism.
It is a cure for rheumatism to get a dog and skin it and boil the rest of it . When the dog is boiled the soup is used for bathing the rheumatic parts.
Warts.
A way for taking off warts off your hand is by stealing a piece of bacon and letting no one see you. Then rub it on the warts and bury the bacon and while the bacon is rotting the wart is also roting.
To bury eight straws in the ground and(continues on next page)
