School: St Oran's, Buncrana

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   suck the black blood out of the eye.

   A person with the mumps would be taken to a stream. He would be carring the harness on him. The stream would have to be one running south.

   Warm salt was used to cure a pain the back. For a lump an empty bottle was warmed. In olden times a person who would have diptheria went into a whole in a tree five times.

   Mrs. Bridget McLaughlin, Drumfad, Buncrana, Co Donegal (1/2/1938)

   Saltpetre was also used for pain in the inside. A piece of saltpetre about the size of a pea would be mixed in a bowl of buttermilk and then drunk.

   A ware was cured by rubbing salt on it every night. Sometimes when a person would have the toothache in a tooth at the side of the mouth he would tie a bit of string round the thumb on that side. The string was tied between the two joints.

   

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2. The Care of the Feet

   

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   There was a man in Sleadrin and he never wore shoes and in winter he would put on stockings to keep his feet warm. There was a woman in Shandrin

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
         1. shoes (~1,841)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   John Mc Laughlin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   71

   Address

   Sladran, Co. Donegal