School: Ballinahowen (roll number 8646)
- Location:
- Ballynahown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Hanly
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- (continued from previous page)8)Whooping cough: If the person that hs the whooping cough drinks the leavings of a ferret it will cure him.
9)Corn: Put the juice of a house-leek on the corn every night until the corn disappears.
10) Toothache: If the person who has the toothache gets a drop of water out of the little hole that is over a priests headstone and puts it on the tooth, it will cure it.
11) Consumption: Boil a dandelion and give the juice of it to the person who has the consumption and it will cure him.
12) Hiccough: If you get a hiccough, swallow your spit three times without drawing your breath, the hiccough will go.
13) Pain in your side: If you get a pain in your side, take up a stoneand put your spit on the stone and turn the side the spit is on towards the road, the pain will go.
14) If you get a thorn: If you get a thorn in your foot, put a fox's tongue to it and it will draw the thorn.
15) Stye: Rub a gold wedding ring on the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Úna Ní Phólláin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Esker, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Séamus Ó Pólláin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Esker, Co. Offaly
