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School: Hewetson, Clane (roll number 13902)

Location:
Millicent North, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Sean Crawford
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 045

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  1. A Cure for Warts

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    Some people say that if you have a wart on your finger dip your fingers in a hole in a tree, three times and it will cure it. One must not go looking for a hole in a tree. It must be found by chance.
    A cure for a sty in ones eye.
    If a person has a sty in his eye let him get a thorn off a gooseberry bush and prod the sty nine times, counting nine in his own mind between each prod. This was told to my mother by a tramp. Told by Alfred Stranney.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    George Thompson
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12

  2. A Cure for a Sty in One's Eye

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    If a person has a stye in his eye let him get a thorn off a gooseberry bush and prod the sty nines times, counting nine in his own mind between each prod. This was told to my mother by a tramp.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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