School: An Píce (The Pike, Shinrone)

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1. Cures

   

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   Cure Boils and sores, mix 1/4 lb lard and 1 oz of red precipic powder. Cure for warts. Camphorated oil. Castor oil. Cure for the whooping cough 8 ozs of wild thyme and a pint of water boil slowly until reduced to half a pint and before it is cool add 8 ozs of honey. Ointment for burns Melt an equal part of suet and bees wax and when it is cool it is hard. Heat a little of it and put it on a linen cloth and put it on the burn. Hatty Murphy Told by my sister.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Katty Murphy

   Gender

   Female

2. A Ghost Story

   

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   About ninety years ago in a place called Ballinahinch in Tipperary there was a number of inveterate gamblers who spent their nights in card playing and profanity. They would often stay gambling from Sunset to cock-crow.
   One night after a particularly lurid exhibition the party broke up in disorder about midnight. One of the party

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