School: Móta Ghráinne Óige
- Location:
- Woodlawn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlís Ní Innse
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- (continued from previous page)Seventh SonThe seventh son or daughter of a family is supposed to be able to cure a person with wild fire. The blood of a person by the name of Welsh is a cure for ringworm.A Cure for wartsBathe them three times in a stone with water in the hollow of it. Another cure Get five stones and hide them and whoever would get them would take the warts.A Cure for a Sty.Get a ring and put the sign of the cross three times over it and look through the ring. Another cure is to prod the sty with a thorn of a gooseberry bush and it will cure it.Got from Mrs Cannon Cloonamorris Woodlawn.
Asked by Michael Cannon Cloonamorris Woodlawn.
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A Cure for WartsTo get a dandelion stem and squeeze the milk out of it and put it to a wart, it will go. or if you wash your hands in water that is got out of a blacksmiths forge.For a Sting of a wasp put a blue rag to it and it will go.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Willie Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killaan, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killaan, Co. Galway