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School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)

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Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Mother Philomena
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    three paters and aves, and putting a spoon in the mouth, pulls three hairs out of the person’s head. This is done, three evenings, in succession, always before sunset. A cure for a wart is, to go to a pool in a rock and bathe it in it, while doing so, say, “Wart, wart, go away, never come back to me to stay.”
    If on the day of his birth a worm is put in the hand of the seventh son, he has the cure of the toothache.
    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
    Bernie Campbell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal