School: Blacklion
- Location:
- Blacklion, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: F. Johnston
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- If warts are washed in water found in the cleft of a rock they will disappear. To cure toothache people used to get boiling water and put salt in it and put this into the ailing tooth.To crawl under a donkey's legs, is supposed to be a cure for mumps. If a man had very sore eyes, somebody would put winkers on him, and lead him to the nearest stream, and wash his eyes in the stream; this is supposed to cure him. When children have whooping-cough their parents put garlic to their feet, this cures the 'whoop'.If a person sprains his foot, he sometimes goes to a man in the district who has the 'cure', the man ties a "sprain string" on the injured foot. When children are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Charles Lyness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belcoo, Co. Fermanagh
- Informant
- Sergt Lyness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belcoo, Co. Fermanagh