School: Cillíní Díoma (roll number 15071)
- Location:
- Killeenadeema, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Uinsionn Ó Conáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0190
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- (continued from previous page)11. If a person who has boils or ringworm gets the seventh son of a family to blow his breath on them it would cure them
12. A person who has a bad cold goes out in his bar feet while the dew is on the grass and runs round the cold will go.
13. If a person has a sprain or a swelling they should rub goose grease to it
14. A person who has a sore throat should put coarse salt and roasted onion into a woollen stocking and if you put them to it, it will cure the throat
15. A person who has warts should steal a piece of bacon out of a house without letting anyone see them and hide it, they should also wash the warts in the hold of a wall in which there is water and after nine days the warts will be gone.
16. If a person has the chin cough, if they see a man passing on a white horse they should go out and ask him for a cure because a man riding on a white horse has a cure(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brighid Ní Mhaoilchiaráin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Earlspark, Co. Galway
