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School: Ramonan

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0996, Page 046

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    (continued from previous page)
    and point each one nine times at it If a person cut his finger a cobweb was put on it. If a person had a wart on his hand he would get a snail and put it on a thorn, and when it would be dying the wart would go.
    The cure for toothache was to get a needle and prick the tooth nine times and then bury the needle and the person would never have toothache again until the needle was rooted up.
    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
    Neville Hawthorne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Claddagh, Co. Cavan