School: Adoon (roll number 11152)
- Location:
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Charles Flynn
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- In olden times the people used many things as cures for different ailments. An old cure for a sore throat is roasted salt put in bag and tied around your neck. Roasted Oat Meal is a cure for an earache. Black tea is a cure for sore eyes. When a pot of potatoes is boiling the froth that comes on the water is a cure for swellon on your finger if you put your finger into it. To put a child under an ass foal that never was ridden is a cure for the chin-cough. Another cure for the chin-cough is to give to the child whatever a ferret leaves behind him. A cure for the Measles is to boil nettles in sweet milk, and drink the milk.To cure a wart is to get a black snail and rub him to the wart three times and stick him on a white thorn bush and while he is withering the wart will be withering. A cure for a stye on the eye is to pull nine goose-berry thorns on a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Alice Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edergole, Co. Leitrim