School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 2909)
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0499, Page 299
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- A cure for thrush is to get a person that never saw his father and to have him breathe three times into the persons mouth that would have the disease. A cure for chincough is to give milk to a ferret and to give the leavings to the person who would have the chincough. A cure for warts is to rub a snails spit to the wart then stick the snail to a thorn and as the snail would be getting rotten the warts would be going. A cure for pain in your teeth is to put a frog into your moth. A cure for sore throat is to boil dandelion and to drink the juice. A cure for sore eyes is to rub water grass to them. A cure for chillblains is to get a potato and put a hole in the potato and put salt in the hole and when the salt is melted rub the wet salt and potato to the chillblains.
- Collector
- John Kiely
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lissamota, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John Kiely
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Lissamota, Co. Limerick
