Cures

The old people in each district have cures for certain disease. They can cure a person by some weed or by certain leaves. The most common around this district are the following:
Warts – It is a cure for warts to wash them in boiling potato water or dip them in water which one finds in a stone without looking for it, or to rub some chicken weed on them.
Toothache – long ago it was custom for men to show on Sunday. it would be a cure for tooth-ache for them to shave on Saturday.
Chin-Cough – To catch a hedgehog boil it and drink the soup is a cure for chin-cough or to meet a man with a white horse ask him for a cure, if he gives you any cure the chin-cough will go.
Head-ache – A cure for a head-ache is to measure ones head each way with a tape.
Boils – There are two wells in this district in which boils are cured. One is where three parishes are joining and the other where three properties are joining.
Pains – The people believe in this district that by going through holes in walls or ditches that certain pains would be removed.
Hicough- It is a cure for it to drink out of a cup without putting ones nose into it or to get frightened by someone who was speaking.

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0042, Page 0372

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0042, Page 0373