School: St. Brigid's (B.) (roll number 12925)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: M. Gúld
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 064](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0880%2FCBES_0880_064.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 064
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: St. Brigid's (B.)
- XML Page 064
- XML “Cures”
- XML “Cures”
- XML “Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)To stop a sore from bleeding you would put a cobweb on it. If a person had an earache they would put hot caster oil on it.
- A cure for a pain in the stomach is to stand on your hands and get someone to shake you.
A cure for warts is to rub a match on them for nine days.
A cure for the hookping cough is to chop up snails and eat them.
A cure for the toothache is to rub mustard on the tooth. - A cure for warts is to put the juice of a dandelion on them.
A cure for a headache is to put a stone on the forehead and the headache will(continues on next page)- Collector
- John J. Doyle
- Gender
- Male