School: Killossery, Kilsallaghan
- Location:
- Killossery, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ó Corbhallagh
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- (continued from previous page)find a snail without looking for it and hang it on a black thorn stick, as the snail dies the wart shall also die.
An old cure for sore eyes is, the afflicted person to see a friend whom he or she has not seen for a number of years. For a sty in the eye one should get nine Gooseberry thorns and on three successive mornings put three in the sty.
A cure for a sore mouth which is locally called "the thrush", is to put the person with the ailment in and out under a donkey's stomach three times
If one has the whooping cough the old people recommend us to get a port of tar or pitch and boil it, the person should breath over this, the cough is then supposed to fade away. Another cure is to get a snail and put it into a piece of cloth tie this around the person's neck.
When a person churns the first time in May they keep some of the buttere and this is supposed to cure "wild fire".
There is a plant which grows wild called March Mallow the roots of this plant is boiled, and this is a cure for(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eillen Evans
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Killossery, Co. Dublin