School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 188
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- Steal a small piece of meat from a neighbour, and rub it on the wart, then leave the meat on a window-sill, or some place where one is sure to find it. The person who touches it will soon have a wart growing on his hand, while the other person gets cured.
- Long ago the children going to school had a small round patch of rash on their hands, and my grandmother told me that it was called Saint Anthony's fire, but if a child wrote her name around the little patch it would go away.
- Long ago they used call Ash Wednesday Puss Wednesday, because the girl who did not get a husband during Shrove would have a puss on her.
