School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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- 1. If there are seven sons in a family with out sisters and if there are worms out in the seventh sons hand he can cure ringworm.
2. The Blood of a Digan or Walsh can cure the wild fire.
3. By licking a lizard a person can cure a burn.
4. The food left by a ferret will cure the whooping cough.
5. If a person has a toothache and he put bluestone in it, it will be cured.
6. If a person has a wart and he finds a black snail and rubs it on it will be cured. The snail must be left on a blackthorn bush to die.
7. Dockers (Docks) will cure a nettle burn.
8. By pointing gooseberry thorn nine times at a sty it will cure it.
9. House leek will cure a born it is is boiled.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Joseph Concannon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr James Henzey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 71
- Address
- Cappanalosset, Co. Offaly