School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)cure for removing warts was by visiting a well in a tree. You would want to visit this well three times and dip your warts in the at each visit. You would tie a bit of string at the well and your would disappear in a short time. John Murray in Delvin has the cure of the warts. He rubs his hand to the warts and says some prayers and in a few days the warts are gone.
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