School: Achadh Eóchaille, Inis Céin (roll number 10243)
- Location:
- Aghyohil Beg, Co. Cork
- Teacher: C. Ó Ríordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0312, Page 163
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- A TOOTHACHE: Catch a frog and make the sign of the cross nine times inside in your mouth with him.
Another cure is to go to a graveyard and take a bite of grass three times off a priests grave.
WARTS: A cure for warts is to bury a piece of meat unknown to any body.
Another cure is to wash the warts with water you would find upon a stone.
A SORE EYE: A cure for a sore eye is to wash it with black tea.
A CURE FOR A WISP IN YOUR EYE: is to rub gold to it.
WHOOPING COUGH: to drink milk that a ferret has left after him.
MEASELS: Sheep's milk has being given as a cure for measels.
TO STOP BLEEDING: People long ago used to take down cobwebs to stop bleeding. They used to tie a piece of cloth over the cobweb to keep it on.
- Collector
- Nancy Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Crowley
- Gender
- Female
