Curious Folk Cures | Irish Folk Cures & Medicine | Dúchas Dives

I'm back after being sick for the last couple of weeks with a video on some of the more curious cures I have found on the National Folklore Collection of Ireland's digitised archive. Let me know what you think in the comments!

Thank you to everyone for your kind words and well wishes while I was sick! 😍

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Resource links for further reading are below!

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Some of the Sources:

“A cure for chilblains was to go into another person's house and rub your boot to the hearth. Another cure for chilblains was to rub them with goose grease.”
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922297...

“To take off their boots in another person's house and to leave their feet on the hearth and then the chilblains would go from them to the people of that house where they took off their boots.”
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922096...

“A cure for warts was to steal a piece of meat out of another person's house and to bury it in the yard.”
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922297...

“To cure warts you are to rub a puca snail on them. Then you are to hide the snail. When the snail is rotted the warts will go away.”
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5044645...

“This is another cure for warts to get a snail and to rub it to the warts and then tie the snail to a white-thorn bush. You should go out to look at it for nine mornings and while the snail is withering the wart will be going. To rub your fasting-spit to a wart every morning is a cure for warts.”
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428120...

“Sheep's cofforn (droppings) and milk boiled is a cure for the measles.”
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4758489...
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921685...

“Cow-dung is sometimes used as a cure for corns. It is applied when soft and allowed to dry. Then the corn is supposed to come out.”
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5044633...

“There is another cure for a burn is to rub cow-dung on it” https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4672085...

Pig dung was used to stop a wound from bleeding.”
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4583309...

“People used give their children a spoonful of fresh "cow-dung" boiled on milk for worms.”
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5235086...

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