School: Loughteague, Stradbally (roll number 6129)
- Location:
- Loughteeog, Co. Laois
- Teachers: Brigid Keane Brighid Ní Chatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0837, Page 121
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- (continued from previous page)Scabs (on arm or any other part concerned for cure)
Boil new hay in water, keep the arm in the boiling water as long as you can stand it. Scab or any sore –
1. Rub on a bit of butter and get the dog to lick it
2. Or catch the cat and rub her nail along it
3. A fasting spit is supposed to be a sure cure for sores, pimples, and ring-worms.
Stone-bruise –
1. Warm chicken-weed on hob. When leaves are warm apply to the bruise. This is the soft juicy chick. weed which grows abundantly in petals, dries, it bears slightly glossy leaves and sprawls on ground.
2. Rotten apple or cold stone applied to swelling caused by a blow or fall on hard object or stone will keep down the swelling, or even prevent it rising.
3. Apply plaster of soap and sugar for stone-bruise. Back Ache – get a person who came feet foremost into the world to walk over the patient’s back. There is a curse in that person’s feet. (continued from previous page 119)
6 Whooping Cough – let child wet a piece of bread (see loose leaflet here) give this to a dog. The child will recover. “the dog is was who died!”
7 Put child into an open grave before the coffin is put down.(continues on next page)
