School: Curraghmore (roll number 12714)

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   The cure of corns is to walk in a wet bog.

   Baba Carty,
   Wooddown,
   Mullingar

   Obtained from:

   Ms. Mc cormack (15)
   (Same address)

   

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2. Cures

   

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   The cure of the chin cough is to get your God father to put nine knots on a yard of red tape. The cure of warts is to rub a snail to the warts and stick him on a white thorn and on the ninth morning the wart wil disappear. The cure of a sty in your eye is to point nine gooseberry thorns to the sty for nine mornings. The cure of a bad cough is to boil nine garlic roots with table vinegar.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Leonard

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Curraghmore, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Mrs Brigid Leonard

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   37

   Address

   Curraghmore, Co. Westmeath