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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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   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