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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   to be a cure. Willie Reed of Bloughfin Ballygawley has the cure for the yellow jaundice. Cure for whooping cough.. People gave milk to a ferret and whatever was left was given to the person to drink. Doreen O' Grady. Rathrippon, Collooney Co. Sligo. This information was given to me by my father Edward O'Grady.

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2. Local Cures

   “There was a lot of cures in my district long ago.”

   

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   There was a lot of cures in my district long ago. Here are some of them.
   Whooping Cough - is go in and out three times under an ass foal that has not been ridden. Mountain sage is a cure for a cough, it has to be boiled and sugar and licras put on it and taken as a drink.
   Warts - The cure to get a black snail and put on a white thorn bush and when the snail is withered the warts will leave. Another cure for warts, to melt washing-soda and put it on them. If a dog lickes a cut it is supposed to be cured.
   Sty in the eye - The cure is to pick ten gooseberry thorns and then make the sign of the cross, throw away the first one and point the other nine.
   The cure for delicate people is an herb called the arrow, it has a leaf like a fern. It can be boiled and milk poured

   

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