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School: Beárna Dhearg (C ) (roll number 14634)

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Barnaderg, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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    A snail rubbed on the wart every morning and evening until the wart begins to go is said to cure warts. Sap of the dandelion squeezed on the wart is said to cure it. Rubbing the wart on stubbes is said to cure it. Rubbing water in a stone on the wart which one comes on accidentally. If a person who has a wart steals a piece of bacon and hides it under a stone. While the bacon is decaying the wart is decaying also.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Lynskey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Barnaderg, Co. Galway
    Informant
    John Lynskey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Barnaderg, Co. Galway