School: Cill Mhuire (C.), Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10395)
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máiréad Pléimeann
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- XML “Cleas na Péiste”
- XML “Cures for Warts”
- XML “Cure for Rheumatism and Neuritis”
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- (continued from previous page)of person round affected part.
- Put a pebble for each wart into a bag. Take it to the crossraods and leave it there where it cannot be missed. The first person who looks into the bag takes the warts.
- Informant
- Mrs Travers
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Cordal, Co. Kerry
- This is a cure of which one family has the monopoly. Take a parcel of lard to a certain gentleman. He mixes it with his fingers, whether he has any other mixture or not is not known. He destroys the paper in which lard was brought and puts a fresh paper round the mixture.
He first applies the lard with the tips of his fingers to the affected part, and rubs it in with a piece of the paper which is round the parcel. When applying the cure afterwards it is essential that the person must rub it in with a piece of the paper which is round the parcel, and put the paper used for each application in a hole in the wall outside the dwelling house.
