School: Drumbaniffe, Crusheen
- Location:
- Drumbonniv, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Lionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593, Page 014
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- (continued from previous page)all kinds of diseases. The people had good, strong teeth, but whenever they got a toothache, they got a frog and rubbed it to their teeth and the toothache went and it never troubled them after that. Any person who would lick a lizard and afterwards like a burn, has a cure for a burn.
A fox's tongue applied to the thorn will down it out no matter how far in it is.
Goats milk is a cure for delicate people, and hare's soup is a good tonic for invalids.
It is said theh the leaving of cats' milk is a remedy for all cough. The skin of the gigard of a hen boiled in milk was considered a good cure for a pain in the stomach. The people always killed a cock in honour of Saint Martin and they considered the blood of this cock a great cure for a pain in the side, the blood being rubbed on with a piece of flac.
In our locality there is a blessed well names Cill Drígde and the water of this well cures sore eyes. It is said that a blind man came to this well and fell asleep and when he woke he had his sight restored, and he went away leaving his stick, which grew into a tree.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Angela Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknamucky, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknamucky, Co. Clare
