School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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- A cure for wild-fire.
A cure for wild is to rub a piece of gold or a red coal out of the fire to the wild-fire. When you are rubbing them to the wild-fire say, "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen,"A cure for ring-worm.
Get polish and paraffin oil. Put a glass of paraffin oil in a jar. Then get some polish and mix well together. Then put some on the ring-worm three or four(continues on next page)
