School: An Mhágh Bheag, Droichead Banndan (roll number 11025)
- Location:
- Mawbeg East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Uallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0315, Page 021
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- 1. If you lick a lizard it will cure cancer.
2. If you get a cut wash it with urine.
3. If you get a bite from a dog kill him and the cut will cure.
4. To give you a good appetite chew wild sage.
5. If a dog licked a cut it would cure quickly.
6. Rub goose grease to a sprained leg.
7. If you pick leaves off every tree and boil them together it is a cure for burns.
8. This is a cure for a dog that would have fits.
Get bits of a horses shoe and other bits of iron also and redden them.
Then get sour milk and put the irons into it and give it to the dog to drink.
My uncle cured our dog when he had the fits.
- Collector
- Teddy Mac Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Murragh, Co. Cork
