School: Carn Aodha (Carney)
- Location:
- Carneybeg, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0535, Page 507
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- (continued from previous page)[?] page 506 is missingwarts. The old people used say that anything which the God-father would tell a child to do to cure his whooping-cough would cure it. Another cure for the whooping cough was if you met a man riding a white horse and he told you to do a certain thing, you should do it and you would be cured. The best cure for warts was to get a black snail - he should be got accidentally - and rub it to the warts. Then it should be stuck in a black-thorn bush and according as the snail would be rotting the warts would be disappearing. A charm for curing warts is to steal a bit of meat rub it to the warts, and bury it.
A very much-used plan for preventing a cut from bleeding was to wind a clean cobweb round it.
When first the disease "augue" - a shaking disease - came to this country, the best cure it was supposed to be to swallow spiders eggs.
- Informant
- Michael O Meara
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Urra, Co. Tipperary
