School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Fethard (roll number 8903)
- Location:
- Fethard, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr M. Agatha
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- (continued from previous page)Tie a rib of hair around the wart or put your "fasting spit" on it for nine mornings and the wart will die.
Dissolve washing soda in as small an amount of water as possible and rub it to the wart.
Rub the milk of the dandelion to the wart.
Put a lighting match to the wart and keep it there until the wart burns away.Count the number of warts you have and get a bag and put a stone in it for each wart and put the bag on top of a hill. The next person who would touch the bag would get all the warts. Go up a hill and the first stone you meet with a lough of water in it, dip the wart in it and it will be cured straight away. A Stye on the Eye.
Make the sign of the cross with a wedding ring three times on the eye or look through a gold ring once.
Bath the eye in cold tea or let the stye with a thorn of a(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr J. Skehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonbrogan, Co. Tipperary
- Moglass, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr J. Skehan
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Clonbrogan, Co. Tipperary
- Moglass, Co. Tipperary
