FOR FRECKLES
Anoint a freckled face with the blood of a bull, or of a hare, and it will
put away the freckles and make the skin fair and clear. Also the distilled
water of walnuts is good.
FOR A BURN
There is a pretty secret to cure a burn without a scar: "Take sheep's suet
and the rind of the elder-tree, boil both together, and the ointment will cure
a burn without leaving a mark."
FOR THE MEMORY
The whitest of frankincense beaten fine, and drunk in white wine,
wonderfully assisteth the memory, and is profitable for the stomach also.
FOR THE FALLING SICKNESS
Take a hank of grey yarn, a lock of the patient's hair, some parings of his
nails, and bury them deep in the earth, repeating, in Irish, as a burial
service, "Let the great sickness lie there for ever. By the power of Mary and
the soul of Paul, let the great sickness lie buried in the clay, and never more
rise out of the ground. AMEN."
If the patient, on awaking from sleep, calls out the name of the person
who uttered these words, his recovery is certain.
If a person crosses over the patient while he is in a fit, or stands between
him and the fire, then the sickness will cleave to him and depart from the
other that was afflicted.
FOR CHIN-COUGH
A griddle cake made of meal, to be given, not bought or made; but a cake
qiven of love or of charity, not for begging; a cake given freely, with a prayer
and a blessing; and from the breakfast of a man and his wife who had the
same name before marriage; this is the cure.
The touch of a piebald horse. Even a piebald horse pawing before the
door helps the cure.
The child to be passed seven times under and over an ass while a red
string is tied on the throat of the patient.