School: Scoil na Móna Fliche (Moanflugh) (roll number 10272)

Location:
Moanflugh, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Deasmhumhnaigh
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  1. XML School: Scoil na Móna Fliche (Moanflugh)
  2. XML Page 030
  3. XML “Heating Milk by Means of Hot Stones”
  4. XML “Other Cures and Charms”
  5. XML “Other Cures at Blessed Wells”

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    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
      2. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
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  2. 37. Other cures and charms
    For hiccups - 8 sips of water, 9th sip spit out.
    burns - fresh butter melted in a vessel on the fire, and the oil rubbed on with a feather.
    worms - lime water
    sore eyes - cold tea
    burn - a dog's lick
    sting of wasp - dockleaf
    warts - water of Tobar na bhFaithinní and "round".
    T.B - garlic
    Taom-spearthach (a "blast") - tea from penny leaf
    scour in cattle - hay water
    burn and corns - ivy leaf
    burns - poultices from root of dock or from chickenweed
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  3. Charms -
    The 7th son of a 7th son was called a "doctor" and had the power of killing any worm (piast) by making the sign of the Cross over it.
    The same power was possessed by a man who was born on Good Friday, and baptised on Easter Monday.
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