School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Boys) (roll number 16332)

Location:
Skerries, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
T. Mc Namee
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    Local Cures (continued from page 69)
    Skerries, Co. Dublin.
    Some of the best known cures about Skerries are for warts, to wash the hand in forge water is considered a good cure; to let a black snail bleed the wart or to get nine mots of straw and say a Hail Mary on each mot.
    For toothache, to rinse the mouth in the water after boiled cabbage, or to eat an onion raw.
    When a person gets a sting of nettle, some people say rub it with a Dawkin leaf. Here is a saying which a person should say to get rid of stings:- "Dawkin, Dawkin, round about, take the sting of a nettle out."
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Fox
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Strand Street, Co. Dublin