School: Dubhais (roll number 16323)
- Location:
- Dooish, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 233
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- (continued from previous page)will decay in the ground. As it does so the warts will also "wither away"
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Causes of warts
If children, paddling in water came in contact with the froth which during floods especially, collects on the surface. This was said to cause warts.
Washing one's feet in water in which eggs had been boiled was said to be another cause of infection.
- A person who found a lizard in the grass, caught it and licked it.Then letting it free again possessed ever after a cure for burns in his tongue. Roger Flanagan a cousin of the Abraham Flanagan mentioned on pages [??] (and living with him) had this cure for(continues on next page)
