School: Baile Mhic Ealgóid
- Location:
- Ballymacelligott, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Siobhán Ní Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0444, Page 019
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- (continued from previous page)(1) If a ferret drinks milk and leaves some after him, the milk he leaves after him would cure the chin-cough (whooping-cough).
(2) If you had a sore mouth, and put a [?] into it it would cure it.
(3) A man with a white horse is able to cure whooping cough by whatever he says to give the [?]
(4) If you burn your leg with a nettle it can be cured with a dock leaf.
(5) The cure for a tooth-ache is to put a frog into your mouth.
(6)The cure for "Thrush" is to put a ganders beak in your mouth
(7) The cure for a cut is to put a spider into the cut [?]
(8) It is said that if seven sons are born in one family, the seventh could cure.
(9) The cure for cold is onions boiled in milk, and pepper in milk.(continues on next page)
