School: Dundalk (Dundalk Road Convent) (roll number 5387)
- Location:
- Dundalk, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Oliver
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- Cures1. People who have whooping cough can ease their cough by getting some eatable from a married couple who have both the same surname.
2. By getting an eatable from a man owning a piebald pony.
3. By getting a red tape from one's Godmother or Godfather.
4. If a person has the Itch they are supposed to be cured if they get something from a boy or girl who has never seen his or her father.
5. For the mumps go in or out of a sty with a donkeys halter on you, while some old man says a prayer and you will be better.
6. To drink the liquid of boiled nettles helps the measles.
7. To apply nine thorns of a gooseberry bush nine times to the eye will cure a sty.
8. For cuts apply cobwebs daily until better.
Maura Meegan- Collector
- Maura Meegan
- Gender
- Female