School: Seosamh Naomhtha (roll number 16640)
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Bráthair Naiti
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 112
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- For itch, boil or rash you dig a daisy and boil the roots with some oat-meal and then put this poultice on the sore.The milk that a ferret has tasted is a cure for chin-cough.The leech is a cure for bruises and burns. You put the leech on the sore in order to heal it.The cure for the wart is to steal a piece of beef out of the butcher’s shop and make the sign of the cross three times on the wart with the beef. then bury the beef and when the beef rots the wart will rot also.
- Collector
- Neil Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
