School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab (2) (roll number 13976)
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: J.W. Pollard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 413
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- (continued from previous page)If a person that had whooping cough and if he drunk donkeys milk it was supposed to cure it.
If a person had pimples on his face and if they were rubbed with a fasting shittle it was supposed to cure them.
Cob-webs put on a freshly cut wound is supposed to stop the bleeding.
If you boil rib-leaf or gooses fat and rubbed it into a sprained joint it is supposed to cure it.
If you rub a wart with dandelion juice or broad bean juice it is supposed to cure it. If a tobacco leaf was soaked in water and put on a boil over night, in the morning the boil is supposed to have disappeared.
If seaweed is worn on the chest it is supposed to keep away colds.
If a sty in the eye was rubbed with a wedding ring it is supposed to cure it. Cabbage leaves rubbed across the forehead was supposed to cure a headache. The blood from a black cat is supposed to cure all sort of skin diseases. By carrying a dried rabbit's foot with you every where you go is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Young
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greenmount, Co. Cork
