School: Churchtown (Baile an Teampoill) (roll number 1132)
- Location:
- Churchtown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0395, Page 049
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- Warts – Count the warts and put the same number of small stones into a bag. Bring them to a cross of four roads and throw them there. The first person who finds the bag and counts the stones gets the warts and they leave you.Rub your fasting spit to the warts for nine successive mornings.Spit on the head of a match and rub it to the wart.Rub the juice of a potato to the warts every day at the same time until they go.Sore eyes – Make the sign of the cross on the eyes three times with a gold ring.Wash the eyes with cold tea or bathe them in salt water from the sea.Whooping cough – Cut the ear off a goat and put it under your pillow at night going to bed.Burns – Hold the place that is burned to the fire until the pain goes away.Certain people can cure burns by rubbing their tongue to them. They get the cure by rubbing a lizard (airch-luachra) to their tongue.Cut a piece of hair off a cat and put(continues on next page)
