School: Díseart, Inis
- Location:
- Dysert, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Glúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0613, Page 037
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- (continued from previous page)the chin cough his mother looks for a man with a white horse and says to him “Man with the white horse what will cure the “the chin cough”, and he says “Water and sugar” and I do not know what else.
When a person has a burn, if he can get the dog to lick it, it will be cured, because there is a cure in the dog’s tongue.
An herb called turkey grass is boilt and given to a person who has Rheumatism and it puts back the swelling and removes the stiffness from the person’s joints.
If a person falls from a high wall or a ladder and puts a lump in his forehead, a penny is left between two halfs of a potato and the head side of the penny is put to the lump and it will go back, but if the mark of the penny stays on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumcurreen, Co. Clare
