School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Béal Átha hÉis, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 265
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"A cure for purifying the blood" is to boil nettles and take them. Long ago you had to take three feeds of nettles in the year to keep your blood clean.
"A cure for a horse with bad wind" is to pound up old whins and give them to him with other food.
"A cure for pains" is to get a crane and cut him on the back of the neck then hang him with his head downwards and have some vessel under him to catch the oil that comes out of him and rub this oil where ever you find the pains.
"A cure for the dirty mouth" a person who never saw his father has the cure. All they have to do is to blow his breath on the person who has the dirty mouth.
"A cure for warts" is to rub the dew of the grass on them for nine mornings.
"A cure for a pin in your back" is to skin a hare and lie the skin around your back.
- Collector
- James Duggan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Droim Mullaigh, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Lawrence Duggan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Droim Mullaigh, Co. an Chabháin
