School: Adoon (roll number 11152)
- Location:
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Charles Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 374
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- (continued from previous page)rub it to them and bless yourself with the snail and hang him on a-bush the warts would be withered in nine days. A cure for ringworm is to mix butter milk and pariffon oil and rub it to it, it will cure you.
If you get a stone crop which grows on a stone and put it through a horses mash it will kill worms in him. Another cure for a horse if he has a sore breast is to get the bark of a tree and boil it well and rub it to it, it will heal it.
It is said there is a cure in the seventh son he will be a doctor. It is lucky people say for two people of the one "Sur name" to get married they never will be sick. A cure for the wild fire is to get a half soverign and rub it to it and it will go.
- Collector
- Bartly Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisomadaun, Co. Leitrim
