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School: Dún Beag (C.)

Location:
Doonbeg, Co. Clare
Teachers:
Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 271

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    Toothaches= To eat a spider alive.
    To steal water out of a blacksmith's forge.
    Chin Cough= To drink the milk a feret would leave after him.
    To go out before a man with a white horse and say Man, Man of the white horse, What is the cure for the chin-cough.
    To boil a"Granóg" and drink the soup.
    Burns- A person- who licked a lizard can take away the pain.
    Warts= To rub the water you get lodged on a stone
    To steal a piece of meat and bury it in the ground.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Rita Hanrahan
    Gender
    Female