School: Baile Droichid, Cathair Dún Iascaigh (roll number 10533)
- Location:
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Donnchadh Mac Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 148
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- Local Cures
A cure for a wart is to get a snail and rub him to it. Then stick him in a thorn of a white-thorn bush, and when the snail will be dead the wart will be gone. Another cure is to get a purse and for every wart you have, put a small stone into it, leave it at a cross of four roads, without anybody seeing you, and whoever gets the purse will get all the warts.
There is a certain tree growing to cure jaundice and on the tree there are three barks, the inner bark when boiled is supposed to cure jaundice.
A cure for heartburn is to eat chalk.
A cure for a corn is to soak an ivy leaf in vinegar, and put it on it.
A person who never saw her father can cure thrush by breathing into the persons' mouth.
A cure for mumps , is to put salt in between two cloths, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Byron
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Byron
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
