School: Cnoc an Iubhair (C.)
- Location:
- Kealid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cheallacháin
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- If you go to a bog get a piece of the bog mould and salt it, and rub it to your corns, and it will banish them.
To boil sheep manure and drink it is a cure for measles.
There is a cure in the first candle lighted over a corpse.
If you have warts, fill a bag of stones and leave them on the road. The person who picks them up will take the warts from you.
If you had a sore eye and if you rubbed it with your fasting spit or with a gold ring it cure it.
Milk of a thistle is a cure for warts.- Collector
- Máire Ní Cheallacháin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir