School: St. Patrick's Monastery School, Bruff (roll number 15581)
- Location:
- Bruff, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Br. Denis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 017
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- (continued from previous page)warts permanently. When a cow's udder was swelled, people need to rub a blue stone to it and I have heard that it was very effective.
For the burn of a nettle a dock-leaf applied to the burnt part is said to cure it. when a person used to get a pain in the head it was believed that a handkerchief dipped in May water, tied around the head and left there for a quarter of an hour would cure the pain.
The core of an apple cut out of the apple itself and eaten by a person with a pain in his teeth while saying an Our Father was believed to banish the pain in a short times. These old cures are now swamped in the background of an age when doctors and surgeons employ more modern methods and I fear that they will in the near future become only a memory of former times and customs.
- Collector
- Pat Bray
- Gender
- Male
