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School: Enfield

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Enfield, Co. Roscommon
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Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhomhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0246, Page 030

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  3. XML “A Cure for a Wart on Your Finger”
  4. XML “A Cure for a Sty on the Eye”
  5. XML “A Cure for a Wart on a Beast”
  6. XML “An Irish Folk Tale”

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  2. A Cure for a Sty on the Eye

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    Get ten thorns off a goose-berry bush and point nine of them at your eye, and throw away the tenth thorn. After a few days the sty is supposed to be cured.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. sties (~76)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Farrell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Knockalaghta (Wills), Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    John Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Bohagh, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    James Farrell
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Knockalaghta (Wills), Co. Roscommon

  3. A Cure for a Wart on a Beast

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    First get butter-milk, salt and soot and mix them and a little water and the butter-milk to make a paste. Then rub this on the part of the beast where the wart is and it will be cured in a week or so.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Farrell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Knockalaghta (Wills), Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    John Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Bohagh, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    James Farrell
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Knockalaghta (Wills), Co. Roscommon

  4. An Irish Folk Tale

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    There was once a very good-living boy, of sixteen years in the Co Galway
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Farrell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Knockalaghta (Wills), Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    John Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Bohagh, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    James Farrell
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Knockalaghta (Wills), Co. Roscommon