School: Móta Ghráinne Óige

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   paraffin oil rub on the effected part do this for several days and the ringworm will go.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   If seven sons are born one after another and no daughter between, the seventh is supposed to be able to cure ringworm. There is a certain kind of a ring and if you put it to the ringworm it will take it away. If you get a dandelion stem and squeeze the milk out of it and put it to a wart it will go. If you steal a piece of fat bacon from your mother and rub it on the wart and then bury it, it will disappear.

   If you wash your hands in water that is got out of a blacksmith forge or in a pool of water on a stone it will take them away. While a snail has his horns out put the horn to the wart and squeeze the horn and it will go. For a sty in the eye get a gooseberry thorn and put it to it
   For a sting of a wasp put a blue rag to it
   If a child has the whooping cough ask some man that you meet with a white horse for a cure and whatever he says do it.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Lyons

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilconnell, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Lyons

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilconnell, Co. Galway