School: Ballinlough (roll number 9238)
- Location:
- Ballinlough Big, Co. Meath
- Teacher: P. Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0704, Page 057
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- WartsGet nine stones with a hole in each of them. Bathe the warts in each stone for nine mornings and after the ninth morning the warts will be gone.HeadacheBathe your forehead in rain-water and you will get better.Tie a band real tight around your head and keep it there for an hour and the headache will go.The cure for a headache is to drink a cup of strong tea.CornsGet sheep's wool, and a piece of fat bacon. Put the bacon round the corn and tie the wool around the corn and it will cure the corn.Kidneysthe cure for kidneys is to boil the roots of the butter-cup and drink the juice of it and you will get better.JandiesThe cure for the jandies is to boil the roots of the dandelion along with milk and drink the juice and you will get better.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Mc Enroe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballinlough Big, Co. Meath