School: Gearrbhaile (Garbh-dhoire?) (roll number 12110)
- Location:
- Garbally, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Giollabháin
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- (continued from previous page)Colds: Scailtín - Boil oat meal and buttermilk. Add some butter and eat hot.
Lemon juice and honey in a glass of hot water.
Butter melted in hot milk drunk at bedtime.
Hot whiskey - punch and honey.
Hot water, whiskey and butter drank at bedtime.
Whiskey punch.
Hot milk and pepper.Warts: Let the wart bleed. Then get nine straws and dip them in the blood. Hide or bury the straws and while they are decaying so will the wart.
Get three small stones and hand them to a person to count them. Then ask him to bless himself with them, and if he does the warts will transfer themselves to him.
Put nine wisps of straw in a hole and while they are decaying so will the warts.
Apply to the wart water which you find unexpectedly in a hole in a stone.
Stick a thorn in a black snail and rub the wart with the snail.
Steal a piece of meat from a neighbour's house and rub on the wart. Leave the meat in a hole in the wall and while it decays so will the wart.(continues on next page)
