School: An Clochar, Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 14952)
- Location:
- Oileán Ciarraí, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: An tSr. Caoimhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0447, Page 160
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- To catch a frog and put one of his legs into a persons mouth is supposed to be a cure for a toothache.
A special plant found growing in marshy places is supposed when chewed to cure a toothache, also smoking.
To lick a lizard is the cure for a burn.
The milk left behind by a ferret is the cure for the whooping cough.
To walk in dews would cure corns.- Collector
- Alice Griffin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Noreen Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Ladhar, Co. Chiarraí