School: Mullach, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 3928)
- Location:
- Mullach, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Sandair
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- (continued from previous page)Father, Son and H. Ghost it would relieve him
The skin of a duck's gizzard boiled is good to prevent vomiting
To cure a pain in the ear let three drops of the tallow from a blessed Candle into the ear and say in the name of the Father, the Son and the H. Ghost.
If a child had the Chin-cough and to put him under an asse's belly three times in the name of the Blessed Trinity it would cure him.
To suck a frog's body is a cure for a toothache
To rub a hare's toe-nail to the tooth is also a cure.
Another cure for Chin cough is to go to three families of the same surname with a bottle of milk and they to drink some of it and what would be left to give it to the sick child.
An application of brown paper steeped in vinegar is good for headache.
A cure for warts is to get an eel and cut its head off and rub the blood to the wart. Then bury the body and according(continues on next page)- Collector
- Proinnsias Ó Sandair
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- scoláirí