School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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“The woman distributed the butter amongst her neighbours.”
it. The woman distributed the butter amongst the neighbours. Every body used to churn on May moroning. And to break the charm put some part of the plough in the fire while churning, and another way to brake the charm was to tie a nuggan round the cows neck.
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“The people in olden times believed in cures like this for warts...”
The people in olden times believed in cures like this for warts they would steal a bit of bacon out a neighbours house and rub it to a wart and bury it and as it would be decaying, the wart would be dying.