School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)132. If you cut yourself with a rock find the rock again and wash the cut on it.
133. Face skinned - wash it in potato water.
134. You'ld get neuralgia if you picked a blossom the bears fruit.
135. When a dog is defaecating youngsters lock their little fingers to prevent him doing so. For example A locks the lúidín of his right hand in the lúidín of B's right hand.
136. Sty in your eye look through a gold ring, or touch with gooseberry thorn or use black tea.
137. For pain in head. When tea is drawing take cover off teapot and put your forehead to mouth of hot.
138. Hiccoughs - three sips out of wrong side of cup. Catch cup in right hand and drink out of outside of it. Or hold your breath or put your finger horizontally across under your nose.
139. Let dog lick a cut.
140. The white trout come with the daffodils.
141. When there's thunder the fish turn up in the water.
142. Don't burn an elder stick.
143. When one of your teeth fall out bless yourself with it and throw it over your shoulder.
144. It's unlucky to rock a cradle when there's nothing in it.
145. "Mac an Tahoo" a bog flower is good for boils.
146. To cure cyst or non-festering lump on face get an earth-worm and rub him to affected part, then pin the worm to a tree. According as worm rots cyst will go. (Dan Bunyan Market St Listowel Blacksmith did it and it cured him).
147. Lead out of a tea-chest is sometimes put to an old sore.
