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Cures

Abstract: Story collected by Gretta Breathnach, a student at Slieverue school (Slieveroe, Co. Kilkenny) (no informant identified).

Original reference: 0844/3/53

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County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Kilkenny Schools

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Cures [duchas:4748773]

1. Bread soda and water is a cure for heart burn.
2.  Place a dog-leaf on a nettle sting and it will be cured. 
3.  To cure chilblains cut an onion in two and rub it

Cures [duchas:4748774]

to the chilblains. 
4.  Ink or washing-soda applied to a ringworm will cure it. 
5. Cut a raw potato in halves and rub it on a wart and it will disappear. 
6.  To cure an earache let the juice from a fresh burning ash stick fall into it. 
7.  For a head-ache get a silk stocking and wet a small part of it.  Tie it round the head pulling the wet part to the forehead. 
8. Bread soda applied to an aching tooth will relieve the pain.

Origin information
Slieveroe, Co. Kilkenny
Date created:
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 192-193
Volume 0844
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher John Carey.
Languages
English  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
Traditional medicine   linked data (lcsh)
Folk medicine--Leigheas dúchasach
School location
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780604
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 0844/3/53

Suggested credit
"Cures"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4780604>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher John Carey.
Funding
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

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