School: Castlesampson
- Location:
- Castlesampson, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Fithcheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)bury it. The warts will rot away at the same rate that the straws rot. (If some other person finds this bottle he will get the warts)
4. Get some person to count the warts, he then gets them himself.
5. Rub the warts with black snail. Then stick the snail on a long thorn of a blackthorn bush. The warts will wither at the same rate as the snail.
6. Wash the warts in forge water i.e. the water used by the blacksmith to cool the iron.Whitlow
Cut a snail into small piece and apply them, as one would a poultice, to the finger.Thrallac
1. Tie an eel-skin tightly round the wrist.
2. Tie a black band round the wrist.
3. Strap the wrist tightly.Toothache
1. Rub a black snail on the sore tooth.
2. For one who has never smoked - take a few pulls out of a pipe or cigarette.
3. If there is a hole in the tooth pack it with tobacco(continues on next page)
