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Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
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An tSr. M. Olivia
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    It would cure it. If you buy a ring and not let on you are buying it, it will cure the toothache of the person for whom you buy it.
    If there were seven sons in a family the seventh would have a cure for the ringworm or a burn and things like that. If you lick a [?] and if you get a burn and put your tongue on it, it will cure it.
    Golden Rod, a yellow weed that grows on the ditch, if boiled will cure worms in horses.
    Dolly Bowens
    Corskeagh
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dolly Bowens
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrownaskeagh, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Mulvey
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80
    Occupation
    Bean fir oibre
    Address
    Strokestown, Co. Roscommon