School: Mullach na Cille (roll number 14649)
- Location:
- Mullennakill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chéadagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 055
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- (continued from previous page)whoever finds that bag will get the warts and you will get rid of them.
The cure for a boil is to get a piece of brown paper and a bit of ordinary wax. Melt the wax and then rub it on the brown paper and stick it on the boil.
The cure for whitlows and darts is to dip your finger in boiling water.
If ever you got a bite from a dog the cure is to cut the hair off the dog and rub it on the bite.
- A cure for styes is to prod the sty wit ha gooseberry thorn and let the corruption
Honey is a cure for sore throat. The person should eat the honey.
A cure for warts is to tie a rush three times around it and say "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen." Then bury the rush in the manure heap. According as the rush would be rotting the wart would be going away.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Alice Lawless
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ballykenna, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Richard Lawless
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Ballykenna, Co. Kilkenny
