School: Dún Beag (C.)
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- Doonbeg, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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- 1. Salt in a stocking cures a sore throat.
2. A cure for a bad stomach is to drink the juice of "costervane dearg".
3. A lick from a dog cures a cut.
4. Brown paper steeped in vinegar cures a headache.
5. Slack lime and sweet oil is good for a burn.
6. If a calf is suffering from a bad pain, make a knot nine times on its back- which is called "Rugad Peairte"
7. Soap and sugar melted together cures a burn.
8. Lime and linseed oil cures ring-worm.
9. Green grass and a cobweb heals an open wound.
10. Dog leaves cure nettle burns.
11. A cure for the "cray scholar" is a person who never saw their father to breathe three times fasting on the child afflicted.
12. To look at the green grass through a gold ring cures a stye. - 1. Married in grey- you'll live far away.
2. Married in blue- your love comes true.
3. Married in white- you have chosen all-right.
4. Married in red- you wish yourself dead.
5. Married in yellow- Ashamed of the fellow.(continues on next page)