School: Cohaw (C )
- Location:
- Cohaw, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ní Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 251
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- Long ago there was no such thing as a doctor. When people were ill they used to go to learned men to find a cure. There was a cure in every herb. There is a cure for a burn in some herb.
Cumfreigh is boiled and the juice is supposed to cure a sprain if bathed with it. To cure a stye on the eye, get ten thorns of a goose-berry bush and put one to the sore spot and throw it across your right shoulder then bless yourself. Continue this every day until you have the ten thorns thrown away the stye will then be gone. To cure toothache, use was in a certain way of a frog, of a goose, or a gander.
To cure thrush it is said that the food left behind by a ferret should be eaten by the person suffering from this disease.
For the measles certain people were looked upon as having power to cure them, the seventh(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cohaw, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Edward Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cohaw, Co. Cavan
