School: Órán Mór (B) (roll number 4506)
- Location:
- Oranmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál Ó agus Máire Bean Uí Shuilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)from the foot. The nail must be carefully preserved until the foot is quite healed and until all danger of poisoning or festering has passed away. Usually a potato (raw) is taken and cut and the nail is put into the potato and then left on the dresser in the kitchen. When this potato has dried up the nail must be taken out and put into a new (fresh) potato. This continues until the foot is perfectly healed. Unless this is done people believe that the foot will swell-up. The practice applies only to rusty articles.
