School: Crummy (roll number 12691)
- Location:
- Crummy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Rodacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 359
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- (continued from previous page)of new milk to the ferret. Then you give the child its learnings.
If you go in and out under an ass that never had a foal, it would cure you of the chin cough also.
A cobweb would stop a cut from bleeding. You get a cobweb and leave it accross the cut. This will stop it from bleeding.
Oak bark cures an asse's or horses breast if cut. You boil the oak bark in water. Then you sap it into the cut.
A black-snail cures a wart. If you get a black snail without looking for it and rub it to the cut. Then hang it on a thorn and as the snail withers away so will the wart.
Moss stops a cut from bleeding. You pull moss and hold it to the cut. This prevents it from bleeding.Pat McSharry.
Mrs Doyle (70) Drain good.
- Collector
- Pat Mc Sharry
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Drumgud, Co. Leitrim
