School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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- (continued from previous page)Take the sting of a nettle out.Sore Throat
Roast salt on a shovel and put it in a stocking and wear the stocking around your neck.Colds
The cure for a cold is to boil flax seed, along with licquorice, and drink it.Bruises
The cure for brusies is sugar and soap and goose grease. - Warts
The cure for warts is to get a raw potato, and cut it into nine pieces, and rub every piece nine times to each wart, and then bury the potato and as the potato is rotting so is the wart.Sore Throat
The cure for a sore throat is to get "dalkin" seed and boil it, and drink the juice of them.Ringworm
The cure for ringworm, is to boil the skin of an elder bush, and rub it to the ringworm.- Collector
- Vin. Byrne
- Informant
- Mick Woods
- Gender
- Male