School: Scoil na mBráthar Sligeach (Sráid na Céibhe) (roll number 16585)
- Location:
- Quay Street, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0161, Page 173
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- (continued from previous page)(f) Get a weed called wart-weed. Break the weed + rub the white milk on the wart + it will disappear.
(g) Get a bit of "bootrystick" if you have four warts put five notches on the stick + hide it in the ground. When the stick rots the warts will fade away.
(h) Dip the wart in the forge bucket.
- Whittle: Half a lemon.
- Whooping Cough: (a) Ask the first man you meet with a white horse. And he will give you the cure.
(b). Milk left after a ferret has eaten, is another cure.
(c). Inhale the gas in a gas-yard for a couple of minutes. - Collector
- A. Beirne
- Collector
- A. Moffat
- Collector
- Th. Lacey
- Worms: (a). Boil nettles + eat them as vegetables. They are especially good for young children.
(b). A cupfull of boiled buttermilk
