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School: An Muileann (roll number 9208)

Location:
Mullen, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
B. Mac Siúrtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 006

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    The old people say if you get a sting from a nettle and place a dock leaf over the sting the severity of the pain ceases.
    If a Paddie's leaf is placed over a bleeding wound the bleeding will stop immediately. A cure for warts is to get a snail and rub it on the warts, then stick it on a thorn of a bush, and according as the snail is dying the warts will be going.
    If a ninth son places his hand where a person is affected with a cancer it will be cured.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Greta Owens
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullen, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Cunningham
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    73
    Address
    Mullen, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Owens
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    49
    Address
    Mullen, Co. Roscommon