School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)tie it round your neck before going to bed. It is a cure for a sore throat is to Roast onions in the ashes and when they are soft put them in a cloth and tie them round your neck.
Cuts.
Salt is good for a cut.
Paraffin oil heals a cut.
When a person used to get cut very badly, the old cure was to get cobwebs and put them on the cut. The cobwebs were got on the old thatched houses.
Another cure for a cut was to gather ripple grass and chop it up fine and then mix it with a little butter and put nit on the cut.
Corns
Bag water cures corns.
A cure for corns was to wade in salt water every day until the corns would disappear. Another method was to wash them in hot soda water.
Clay from Tory Isle keeps away rats when it is kept in the house.
Persons named Campbell have the cure of Wildfire.
To stop a bleeding nose put silver into the persons hand.
Boiled rowan berries is a cure for a cough.
Dandelions is another cure for a cough.
A nut, three in one is called St. John's nut, if(continues on next page)
