School: Dunbell
- Location:
- Dunbell Little, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Dhubhlaoich
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Cure for sore throat:- Fill a stocking with salt, heat it well. Then tie round the neck of the afflicted person.To keep cuts from bleeding:- Place a cobweb on the cut and it will keep it from bleeding.Cure for w(h)arts:- For every wart you have put a stone in a bag, then leave the bag on the road and the person who finds the bag of stones shall get the warts.Cure for Chilbains:- Go into a house where you have not been before. Take off your footwear and leave your feet on the hearth, and you will leave the Chilains after you.Cure for Yellow Jaundice:- Boil roots of scutch grass in raw milk.Cure for w(h)arts:- Rub the juice of chicken weed on them.Cure for measles:- Put Sheep soverign in a cloth and boil in new milk. This brings out measles very quickly in Children(continues on next page)