School: Baile Dubh (C.) (roll number 2493)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Leathlobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0415, Page 237
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- 1. A person can get rid of warts by putting a small stone for each wart into a box or paper and putting it on the road. The person that picks it up will take the warts.
2. A piece of bacon rubbed to warts and then buried in the manure-heap cures people of warts.
3. A fasting spit for nine mornings is said to be able to clear away warts.
4. A piece of silk thread tied round warts will cause them to fall off.
5. A fasting spit rubbed to a sty for nine mornings will cure the sty.
6. If you wash your face in the dew of the morning the freckles disappear.
7. By drinking nine sups of water hiccoughs disappear.
8. If a child had chincough, and if you ask the first man that passes by with a white horse for a cure whatever he will say will cure the child.
9. If a child had the "Craos Galar", and if a man who never saw his father breathed into the child's mouth before his breakfast, he would cure him.
