School: St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Br. S. Ó Murchadha
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“Long ago people had many cures. A cure for a wart was to cut nine slices of potato and to rub them on the wart saying :- In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen...”
Long ago people had many cures. A cure for a wart was to cut nine slices of potato and to rub them on the wart saying :- In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Then you were to tie them up in a parcel and leave then at a cross-roads. When you were going home you weren’t to look back. Whoever found the parcel got the warts and the person who had them got better.
- Collector
- Tom Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Magheracar, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Leonard
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Magheracar, Co. Donegal
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“On most houses in Ireland there grows a little green plant called house-leek. This is supposed to be a cure for a corn...”
On most houses in Ireland there grows a little green plant called house-leek. This is supposed to be a cure for a corn. A cure for a wart was to put spittle on the wart saying – In the name of the Father and of the Son etc. You were to be fasting when you did this. You were supposed to do it for nine mornings. - Collector
- Tom Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bundoran, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Leonard
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bundoran, Co. Donegal