School: Shinrone (C.)
- Location:
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mary Mc Mahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 133
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- If you get a dog to lick a sore it will never leave a mark. If you get the bark of a tree and rub it on warts then bury the bark of the tree according as the bark rots the warts will go.
Another cure for warts is if you get a knot of straw rub it to a wart bury it according as it rots the wart will go.
A cure for a person who wets the bed is to batch a live mouse and put it in milk and boil it on the fire for three minutes then give the milk to the child.
Whooping cough.
A cure for the whooping cough is to give milk to a ferret and whatever is left to give it to anyone who has the whooping cough.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maisie Pierce
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Sampson
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
