School: An Mhainistir, Malla (roll number 12519)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   Warts 3. (a) If you find a stone with a hole in it and water in the hole. The water is great for curing warts. (b) Get a bag and for every wart you have put a cinder in the bag then throw the bag away. The warts will go away. (c) The white juice you get out of a dandelion is good for warts. (d) Rub blue-stone to them (e) Rub a black snail to the wart. (f) Rub fat meat to them and bury it until it rots. (g) Rub sulphur to the wart (h) If you meet a funeral take some of the clay from under the feet of the men who bear the coffin wishing at the same time as you rub the clay to the wart that it may go away.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr Keating

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Mallow, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mrs Flynn

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mallow, Co. Cork