School: Drom Loiste (roll number 5113)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   It comes on your foot or on your hand like a boil. There is a little herb with a red blossom on it and there is a white one like it with a white blossom on it and you pull them and wash their roots, and then you pull some farban and some hungry grass that grows up through whins and get a flag of a stone and bruis it up with a hammer as fine as you can and put them into a tin box and mix them up through other. When you are putting it on the sore put some cream with it. Put it on a clean cloth and put it on the sore and this will draw it and cure it.
   The dirty mouth.
   If the father is dead before a child is born the child can cure it by blowing its breath into the persons mouth.
   Warts.
   1/ Get a blacksnail and rub it to the wart and hang the snail on a thorn and as the snail is withering the wart is going away.
   2./ Put a fasting spit on the wart for nine mornings.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Francis Thornton

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Michael Keller

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   70

   Address

   Drummacavoy, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   T. Deery

   Address

   Cormoy Upper, Co. Monaghan