School: Cill Mhuire (C.), Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10395)
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máiréad Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 039
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- XML “Cleas na Péiste”
- XML “Cures for Warts”
- XML “Cure for Rheumatism and Neuritis”
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Put a pebble for each wart into a bag. Take it to the crossraods and leave it there where it cannot be missed. The first person who looks into the bag takes the warts.
- This is a cure of which one family has the monopoly. Take a parcel of lard to a certain gentleman. He mixes it with his fingers, whether he has any other mixture or not is not known. He destroys the paper in which lard was brought and puts a fresh paper round the mixture.
He first applies the lard with the tips of his fingers to the affected part, and rubs it in with a piece of the paper which is round the parcel. When applying the cure afterwards it is essential that the person must rub it in with a piece of the paper which is round the parcel, and put the paper used for each application in a hole in the wall outside the dwelling house.
