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School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 278

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    snail. if you rub a snail on a wart and then put it on a goose berry bush. It will disapper.
    wartstone. There is a wartstone in Clenamully, Parish of Tydavnet for curing warts. You have to stick a pin in the wartstone, and then stick it in the wart three times, and say. "God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Then the wart will go away.
    pea-pod. Rub a pea-pod on a wart. Roll the peapod in a piece of paper. Throw it on the road. When somebody lifts it, the wart will go away.
    Chickenweed. take the juice out of it, and rub it on the wart, and then it will go away.
    Funeral. If you stand on a hill, while a funeral passes by, and watch it and say, "Let the warts go with you," the warts will go away.
    Bacon. If you would steal a little piece of bacon, and rub your wart with it, and then bury it. The wart will go away.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    George Lambe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mullyera, Co. Monaghan
    Collector
    Lily Mc Clean
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tattindonagh, Co. Monaghan
    Collector
    Mary Mc Clean
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Tullaghan, Co. Monaghan
    Collector
    Maud Mc Clean
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Mullyera, Co. Monaghan
    Collector
    Wallace Graham
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Graffagh, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Jeremiah Mc Clean
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Mullyera, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    J. Wallace
    Gender
    Unknown
    Age
    52
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Mullyera, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Mrs J. Graham
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    53
    Occupation
    Farmer's wife
    Address
    Graffagh, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Kenna
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Cooldarragh, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Richard Mc Clean
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Tullaghan, Co. Monaghan