School: The Vale (An Gleann)
- Location:
- Leiter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Brolcháin
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- (continued from previous page)a cloth and tie the cloth around the throat.
Nose Bleeding:- Hold the person's head up in the air and their left arm also.
Stye:- A fasting [spit?] for nine mornings in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
Whooping Cough- Put the patient under the hopper of a corn mill.
Toothache:-Put a pinch of dry mustard into the tooth.
Wildfire:- Make the Sign of the Cross on it three times with a gold ring in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
Warts:- Tie a horse's hair tightly around the wart.
Warts:- Get a plant called chicken-weed. Break the stalk and apply the milk that is in the stalk to the wart.
Toothache:- Put a pinch of pepper into the tooth.
Chillblains:- Dip a small cloth in paraffin oil and put it on the chillblains.
Stye:- Go to St Bridget's in Moybolgue Graveyard. Throw money into it. Then bless yourself with the water out of the well.
Hiccough:- Give the person with the hiccough a good fright.
