School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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- (continued from previous page)Local Cures Whooping Cough
This cure was held by Mrs. Armstrong Drumbess: (she and her husband having the same surname) (A ferrets’, hair off a person’s head who never saw his father, leavings was put in a quantity of sweet milk and put on the fire till it boiled. The hair was then fastened to a little chest – protector of red flannel, which was fastened round the neck of the child be affected by the whooping cough. This was worn near the skin.
A ferret’s leavings drunk by the person is also a good cure.Sty on the Eye : Get 9 thorns of a whitethorn, Prick in 3 to the sty and around it, saying “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” Amen. Throw the last thorn across the shoulder (of the “curse.”)Bleeding, “Blind Man’s Buff”
A sort of mushroom grows here which flowers bloom when it ripens. The heart then flowers into dark brown dust. This dust sprinkled on a bleeding will cause it to stop. These are called Blind Man’s Bluff. and used to be sloted up for this purpose.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- An Chorr, Co. an Chabháin