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...

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
      2. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    2. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
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