School: Cill Chiaráin

Location:
Kilkerrin, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Caitlín, Bean Uí Chuimín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 139

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 139

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  1. Warts
    The person afflicted gets a wisp of straw and blessed the wart with it nine times. Then the straw is placed under a stone and the wart will decay by degrees.
    A person writes his or her name on a piece of cloth with a burnt stick and then bury the rag secretly. It is said thet while this is decaying the wart will the decaying also.
    The person who has the wart must find a hollow in a rock and dip the wart in the water three times in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
    To apply the juice of chicken-weed to the wart after it bleeds
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English