School: Naomh Muire, Carraig Thuathail (roll number 2050)
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Criostóir Bheldon
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0384, Page 129
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- Warts. If people suffering from warts find a hole of water in a tree and rub it to the wart and say a few prayers then it is cured. One must find the water by accident. Another cure is to get a paper bag and put in it a stone for every wart and leave it at a "cross of four roads" and one that comes along takes the bag would get the warts. One who suffering from consumption swallow a snail every morning it would cure him. If a person got a sting from a bee rub a bit of fine earth and spit on it the sting would be cured. Sheep droppings would cure whooping cough when you boil it with milk. A(continues on next page)
- Collector
- D. Coffey
- Address
- Cloneen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- J. Coffey
- Address
- Cloneen, Co. Cork
