School: Callystown, Drogheda (roll number 14252)
- Location:
- Callystown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 023
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- (continued from previous page)Whooping Cough
Go under a piebald pony three times and bless yourself.Ringworm
Only one woman in the village has the cure of it. She makes a ring of oaten straw and has a kind of ointment which no one knows. She dips the ring in holy water and then she puts the ointment on the ringworm and cures it.Sty on your eye
When people have a sty they go to some house. A "dalk" = (a thorn) of a gooseberry is got. A person of the opposite sex to the sufferer must point the thorn "dalk" towards the eye, and say,Dalk Dalk cure the sty. In the name of the Father & Sone & Holy Ghost.(continues on next page)
