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School: Baile Uaitéir (Walterstown) (roll number 12281)

Location:
Walterstown, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Raghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 159

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    that it was a cure for burns.
    Thrush:- The old people used say a child who has never seen his father is supposed to cure the thrush if the person, before his breakfast will breathe three times into the child's mouth.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Warts:- Another cure for warts was to cut the wart with a horse's hair.
    Another cure for warts was a snail it should not be looked for, the snail was rubbed to the wart.
    The old people said if you wanted to remove warts, to put a notch on an elder twig, and then throw it away. Whosoever would be so unlucky as to find the twig was supposed to get the wart.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Wilson
    Gender
    Female