Category Archives: Caring for the Ill and Convalescing

As much as I love manuscript receipt books, I want to mention another favorite source that I draw my research from.  On a whim one day, I volunteered to do some transcription for The Schools’ Collection which is a body of folklore collected by Irish schoolchildren in the 1930’s and compiled into handwritten volumes. IContinue reading “Forgotten Folk Remedies: Juicing Turnips”