School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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- 1. Asthma - Stew ivy leaves and drink the juice each morning.
2. Rheumatism - Goose lard rubbed to the joints
3. Wart - Rub a fasting spittle to wart.
4. Whooping cough - Make child walk under a grey horse and around legs
5. Sting of Nettle - Dock leaf with spittle
6. Lump - Press a cold surface to it immediately
7. Wart - Rub a snail to wart - then put snail on bush - when snail dies wart falls off
8. Wart - Prick wart with needle in form of a cross, and according as blood is comig keep it over wart.
9. Consumption - Put a live frog into mouth
10. Blood of a Caheill cures St Anthony's Fire.
11. Bite of Dog - Rub dog's hair to cut.
12. When father and mother are of same name there is supposed to be a cure in the family
13. The seventh son is supposed to have a cure.
11. Ring-worm - Put the top of a burnt hazel stick to ring-worm saying
"Ring worm, ring worm red
That you may never spread
Until you lie dead."(continues on next page)