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School: Cnoc an Iubhair (B.)

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Kealid, Co. Kerry
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Pádraig Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 245

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    Burns: -
    To take a lizard and lick his stomach and then lick a burn with your tongue. This was a cure for the burn.
    Warts: -
    (1) If a person was walking and if he saw a stone holding water, and dip his warts in the water, and then make the sign of the cross on the warts, this was a cure for warts.
    (2) If you chanced to see a piece of meat in a house take a nip of it. Rub it then to the wart, and bury it in the dung-pit at the back of the house. Think no more of it, and then the wart will disappear.
    Corns: -
    Get a horse's capall and bruise the stuff out of it on the corn and it will cure it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Leahy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Informant
    Michael Scanlon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    57
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Lissaniska, Co. Kerry