School: Béal Átha Fhinghín
- Location:
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Dhéisigh
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- Long ago the people said if a person who had warts got a piece of fresh meat and rubbed it to the warts, then buried it, and that every day while the meat would be rotting the warts would be disappearing.
- The cure for a whitlow is to roll the skin found on the inside of a boiled egg round the sore and all pain goes immediately.The stem of buacallán buí pressed between stones gives a juice, which if applied to bruises cures them.
(Drawing of leaf)- Collector
- Lenore Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ballineen, Co. Cork