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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 066

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    is placed in roasted potatoes and salt for a soar throat. The potatoes are put on the coals to roast and the salt is roasted on a pan. They they are mixed up together and put into a cloth and put around the throat of the affected person and it gives instant relief.
    Some people have a cure for heart - fever. They fill a mug of oat - meal and there is a cloth put over it.
    Then the person supposed to have the cure places this mug here and there about the heart of the affected person and he says some prayers. If this person has heart fever some of the meal will leave the mug and if he has not the mug will be as full as ever when taken away.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Smyth
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs M. Smyth
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Keelagh, Co. Cavan