School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)
- Location:
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Tansey
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- Warts
When you see a pooka snail rub him on the wart. Then rub it, bless yourself and stick him on a black thorn bush. When the snail rots away the wart will go. You must not look for the snail. This cure would work. My mother told me this cure.
patrick berry skerries athy
A Sting
when you get a sting of a bee or a wasp. |Rub a drop of ink on it and it would be cured. My uncle james got a sting one night he rubbed ink on it and it was cured in (no) a very short time
Patrick Berry
Skerries Athy
- When you get a sting of a bee or a wasp. Rub a drop of ink on it and it would be cured. My uncle James got a sting one night he rubbed ink on it and it was cured in (no) a very short time
- Collector
- Patrick Berry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare
