School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0012
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- (continued from previous page)If you go into a nearby neighbour’s house and steal a little bit of meat. Bring it home and rub it on the warts, and bury it in the manure heap. By the time the meat is rotten the warts will be gone.
A cure for Evils.
If a person dies without priest or doctor, and the person with the evils comes and leaves the dead man’s hand on them, the evils will disappear.
Leek, which generally grows on walls of houses will cure corns by making a plaster of them and putting it on at night.
- Collector
- Margaret Heneghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Heneghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway
