School: Ballyvongane (Measctha)
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- Ballyvongane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: D. Ó Céilleachair
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- Long ago, when doctors were scarce people had cures for nearly all kinds of diseases.
When anyone had thrush, it was believed that by putting a gander's head back the throat the patient was instantly cured.
A frog put into the mouth was supposed to be a good cure for a toothache.
If a person wanted to get a tooth out he would go to the forge. The smith would get a cord and tie one end of it to the anvil and the other to the patient's tooth. With a red hot iron the smith would rush towards the person and the latter getting a great fright would jerk backwards, leaving behind the extracted tooth.
The milk left, after a ferret feeding was supposed to cure whooping cough.
If a person with a child, sick of whooping cough, goes out early in the morning and meets a man with a white horse, and asks him for a(continues on next page)