School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Patrick
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Chilblains: Put a green cabbage leaf inside your stocking, and it will cure chilblains.
This cure was told to me by Margaret Coughlan, Ferbane, Offaly. - To cure warts dip a straw in water, then rub the top of the straw on the warts, and do not look at it and it will fall off in a few days.
For a sore throat roast salt and put it in a piece of cloth and tie it around your neck. There is a weed growing in the hedge called 'fox tongue'. Heat it to the fire and put it on a burn and it will cure it.
The seventh son has a charm to cure ringworm. Any man named Walsh can cure wildfire by the blood of his finger.- Collector
- Mary B. Jennings
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Reynaun, Co. Offaly