School: Newtown (roll number 3275)
- Location:
- Creevagh, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conbháidh
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- It was said that to go in and out three times to a pig stable was a cure for the mumps
To go in and out three time under a donkeys legs is the cure for the whooping cough. Another cure for it is to boil a blessed thistle and drink the water in which is was boiled.
A cure for a sty on the eye is to get nine gooseberry torns and put them to the eye.
A cure for a sore eye is to get snow that falls in March and wash the eyes in it.
Another cure was the cure for mumps. When a person had a sore throat the people would lead him through a pig sty with a halter round his neck and say nine times ''Hugna hugna mucna likna, likna likna hug na mucna'' and then the person is said to be cured.
To cure warts get a snail and rub him to the warts and hang him up on a bush, and while he is decaying the warts are going away(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sadie Weldon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greenhills, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Weldon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greenhills, Co. Meath
