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School: Gowran (C.)

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Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
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Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 066

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    If you got three knots of strwa & bury it your warts would go, & another way, if you count your warts & put the same number of stones in a bag whoever picks up the bag first would get the warts & yours would go. There is a cure for consumption; if you got a young dandelion & either boil it or eat it raw you would be cured. If a person had a whooping cough & you brought them to a strange house & they were offered an apple without asking it would be cured.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Dalton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mrs Dooley
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    65
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny