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School: Banahoe

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Banagher, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
A. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 060

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    Warts:
    1st Cure: If a person who has warts finds a black snail without looking for it and rubs it to the wart then hangs the snail on a white thorn bush, by the time the snail will have withered the wart will have disappeared.
    2nd Cure: If the person finds a little well of water in a rock without looking for it and washes the warts in the water of the well they will soon die away.
    3rd Cure: Cut a potatoe into nine parts pick the eyes out of the pieces, then bury eight of them and rub the ninth to the wart. It's said that when the eight parts will have rotted the warts will have disapeared.
    Cure for Sore Ears
    If a person who has sore ears rises before the sun is up on the 1st of May and washes his ears with the due of the grass, the due on that morning will cure his ears.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Owen Brady
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Banagher, Co. Cavan