School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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- (continued from previous page)It is said that any child that has chincough, if he goes under a donkey foal that has never been used will be cured. Another cure is by drinking ferrets leavings.
Cure for pains in cattle = If a knot called the worm knot is put on the spot where the pain is, it will be cured.
Cure for nettle burn = It is said that if oil is poured where the burn is, it will be cured.
Cure for pain in the Back = It is said that if a person laid on St Fechins bed they would be cured.
Lucy Cawley, Kilnamanagh, Collooney, Co. Sligo.
This information was given to me by my father Felix Cawley. - Cure for warts. To hang a snail on a briar and when the snail is dying the wart is also dying.
Cure for toothache: - To put some nitre(?) in the tooth and then it will be cured.
Cure for Burn - If you lick a mankeeper it will cure it.
Cure for ring- worm . Any seventh son or daughter born in succession has the cure.
Cure for pain in Back - The skin of a hare, tied round the back is supposed to(continues on next page)