School: Láithreach
- Location:
- Laragh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0939, Page 179
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- (continued from previous page)days in succession either at sunset or sunrise repeating the words 'Muckna, Muckna, chugat na Leckna. Leckna, leckna, chugat na Mucha
Cure for sore throat
Put roast salt in a stocking and tie it round your neck
Cure for toothache
Fill your mouth with castor oil and sit on the fire till it boils
Cure for ceeb
When a chicken has the ceeb a person pulls a feather from a hen and puts it down the chickens. Sometimes the chicken's die and sometimes not.
Cure for headache
Take a good sup of hot tea or tie a rag round the persons head
Cure for sore ear
It is customary to put a piece of wadding and olive oil in the sore ear and to have it blood warm.
