School: Ceann Mhálainne
- Location:
- Ardmalin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán S. Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1124, Page 382
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- If you catch a frog and kiss it you will be cured of the toothache immediately. If you keep a hurchin's tooth in your possession you will never have the toothache. If you have the toothache and go to Cnoc a Locha and get a drink of that water you will be cured. A leaf of tobacco and a pinch of pepper and a piece of brown paper and put it to your jaw it will cure you of the toothache.
If you have warts and not able to get cured of them rub a snail on them and then tie it to a bush. When the snail starts to wither the warts will also wither. If you get a little potato and leave it where it will not the warts will also go away.
There is a priest buried in Lagg called Fr. William. There is a hand cut out on the toombstone. The water that falls into that hand will cure warts if you rub it on them.
If you bleed a wart and put the blood into a little paper and leave it on the road. The one that gets it your wart will dissapear and grow on them.
If you squeze the juice out of a Dundelion stem and rub it on warts it will cure them.
Some people bleed a wart and put the blood into a paper bag and leave it in the middle of the road. Whoever gets it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
