School: St Boden's, Culdaff

Location:
Culdaff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 261

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  1. XML School: St Boden's, Culdaff
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  3. XML “Cures - Toothache”
  4. XML “Cures - Toothache”
  5. XML “Cures for Warts”
  6. XML “Cures for Warts”

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    then put it into a silk stocking and tie it around your mouth.
    (b) from: - D. McKinny, Bunagee, Culdaff
    To put paper or cotton wool in the hole of the tooth with iodine on it and keep out the air.
    (c) To fill your mouth with "Foyle water" and keep it in as long as you can.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. (a) To take a black snail and rub it on the warts then tie a string on it and tie it to a tree and as the snail dies the wart goes away.
    (b) Take a potato and cut it in eight shares and hide the bits where no one will get them and as they rot the wart will go away.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    B. Philomena Deeny
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moville, Co. Donegal