School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)To boil nettles and eat them while they are hot is a good cure for rheumatism.
Told by John Kennelly, (Aged 55) William St. Listowel. Written by Patrick Kennelly (aged 10) William Street, Listowel.
A cure for a bleeding nose is to tie your two middle fingers on your right hand together.
If a person got a serious cut and if the dirt was getting into it put a green leaf of cabbage up to it for about a week and that would cure it.
A cure for warts is to get a pinch of salt and throw it on the road and to spit on the stone next to it.
- They had a cure for stings too They used to get the water that would be inside in the stem of a pipe. They used to rub this to there stings and after a few minutes the sting(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Driscoll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Islandganniv North, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- William Driscoll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Islandganniv North, Co. Kerry
