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

Location:
Barnaderg, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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Warts

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0026, Page 0105

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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.

Collector
Mary Lynskey
Gender
female
Address
Barnaderg, Co. Galway
Informant
John Lynskey
Gender
male
Address
Barnaderg, Co. Galway
Language
English