School: Scoil na mBráthar, Inistíomáin (roll number 16678)

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1. Pósaithe (continued)

   

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   Some days before the marriage they would have what they used to call "the picking of the gander" at the girls house. The evening of the marriage they would have a wedding at the mans house. Late in the night the Strawboys would come and they would cause great excitement. The captain would have a placard bearing the words Supply No Drink all they do is dance a set and go away. When the couple are married a month they go to the girls house and have another dance which they call 'hailin home'

   

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2. Leigheasanna

   

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   Toothache : Candle-Grease, soot, cloves, and raisins

   Sprains : Goose-grease, whale oil and crane oil

   Burns: Any man who licked a lizzard to blow his breath on the burn. Bleeding: Place a cob-web across the cut and it will stop the bleeding. Coughs: Garlic, onions, mellow plants.

   Hooping Cough: Give a ferrett a saucer of milk and whatever he leaves behind it to be drank by the patient.

   Warts: Asses milk and the juice of a dandelion.

   Thrush: Goats milk and any person who never saw their father blow their breath three times down the persons mouth who has the sore throat.

   Contagious diseases: Foxes tongue boiled and then made into plaster will cure all contagious diseases such as ring worm and cancer.

   Sore eyes: Bathe them in new milk or cold tea

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Noel Ó Ceallaigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Seosamh Mac Conghaile

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ennistimon, Co. Clare