School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 460
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- (continued from previous page)The cure the old people had for warts was the person having the warts used to steal a piece of fat meat and hide it under a stone for nine days. When it was there nine days it was taken home and rubbed on to the warts.
The old cure for Asthma was to get ivy leaves and after boiling them to strain off the boiled leaves and then to re-boil this ivy water adding brown sugar until it became thick like thin gruel. It was then eaten when retiring to bed.
Ivy leaves used also be semi-roasted and then applied to corns [?]
A cure for a stye was, that a very keen person picked it with a goose-berry thorn and if he succeeded in doing so the person with the stye would never again get one in that eye.
Another cure for a stye was to rub a gold ring to it nine mornings in succession.
A cure for a black eye was to beat up the white of an egg and to apply it to the black eye bound with a bandage.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pat O Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
