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School: Droichead an Chláir (B.). Clarecastle

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Clarecastle, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Háinlighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 365

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    The asses milk has a similar effect to ferrets leavings Water taken from a rock in a crag is a cure for a wart or a stye.The cobweb cures flowing blood.To get a snail and rub it to a wart then put it in to the hole of a wall so that no one else will touch it.To take a snail out of its shell and rub it to the wart then put it back carefully to the shell again .To get a snail and prod it with a thorn then rub the matter to the wart hang the snail on a bush and as the snail is rotting the wart is going.
    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
    Thomas Slattery
    Gender
    Male