School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 262
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- XML “Cures for Warts”
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- XML “Cures for Decline”
- XML “Cures for Rheumatic Pains”
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- (continued from previous page)and the warts will go away.
- Take a piece of raw meat and rub your wart with it, and then hang the meat to a tree, and as the meat rots the warts go away.
- a) One cure is to take the fresh green tops which grow on whin bushes and boil them, and then drink the water which the tops are boiled in. b) Take the roots of whins and boil them, and drink the water which the roots are boiled in.c) Get dandelions and get the milk from them which is in the stalk and drink it.
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- Collector
- B. Philomena Deeny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- J. Crampsey
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Anna Deeny
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
