School: St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh

Location:
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
An Br. S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1027, Page 070

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  1. Long ago the people of Ireland made it a custom to bleed something on the vigil of St Martin. The country people usually killed some fowl and bled it on the doorstep on that night. Some old people have this custom yet in Ireland.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Mc Cormack
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballynacarrick, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Cormack
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynacarrick, Co. Donegal
  2. The old people have a funny way of curing warts. They used to get a straw and make nine knots out of it. Then they would rub the knots to the warts every day for nine days. After doing all that they would put the knots in a wee parcel and leave it outside someone’s door. Whoever got the parcel first would then take the warts and the person who had the warts would get rid of them.
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