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School: Arklow (Mercy) Convent (An Charraig)

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Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
An tSr. Camillus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0923, Page 151

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    Dandelion water will cure a sick stomach: the dandelion must be boiled in water. Some eyes can be cured by bathing them in cold tea. Ringworm can be cured by soot and lard: Lard is melted and soot is mixed with it: the mixture is rubbed on the sore.
    If a person, who has the chincough, goes under a white ass's legs twelve times in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost he will be cured. If you meet the seventh boy or girl of a family riding a white horse on a Monday morning and ask a cure for chincough, anything that the person says will cure it.
    The water, in which the herb Harehound has been boiled, is a cure for a cough.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Woodbyrne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Whitepark, Co. Wexford