School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)112. Ink on an ass's cut.
113. A mouse trap. = A = Bowl. B = head of pipe containing bread.
114. Soot for a dog who has taken poison and hang him up by legs. Also give washing-soda.
115. For blood-shot eye. Pour milk on red iron and rub milk thus boiled.
116. When a donkey brays a tinker dies.
117. When a tooth falls out and you don't touch hole with your tongue you'll get a gold tooth.
118. Wash a soiled article of clothing in gall of cow.
119. Rub an onion to chilblains.
120. A cricket in the house means a death.
121. If you've crickets carry one in a match box to another house and the others will follow him.
122. If you drink egg-water you'll get a boil. Wash your hands in egg-water and you'll get warts.
123. Dream of raw meat is a sign of death.
124. If you get cut by a witch-grass tie thread into the cut.
125. Spoon of paraffin oil for cold. (Drink it).
126. Snuff salt up your nostrils for head-cold.
122. A child that never saw its father or its mother has a cure for the "thrush" by putting its tongue into the other child's mouth.
123. Heat a bottle by putting hot water into it. Dry and put up jowl to boil to draw.
124. 'Tomaishin' of salt thrown on ground for warts. Person who picks it up gets them.
125. Wood-worms in milk boiled for jaundice. Strain off wood-worms and drink.
126. If a child has cold put a ferret drinking milk and give leavings to child.
127. 'Resin' out of timber used by carpenters for cuts.
128. For ringworm (1) write your name around it with puce pencil or (2) rub stale urine to part affected.
129. A Fox's tongue will bring out a thorn.
130. Salt water and porter for a cow with blood-murrain.
131. Leather water and bluestone and ivy water and the bark of oak for a sore on an ass's breast.(continues on next page)
