School: Granagh (C.), Brúgh Ríogh (roll number 9928)
- Location:
- Granagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Leidhin
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- (continued from previous page)hollow stone, but you must see the water. without going out to look for it.
Another cure for warts is to rub them with a black snail; then kill the snail and put him on the window sill. When the snail has withered away the warts will have withered also.
Warts are also removed by rubbing them with a piece of fat meal got in a house and rubbed in. while nobody is looking.
Still another cure for warts.
Put as many pebbles as you have warts into a bag. Put the bag into a hole in the road. Whoever takes up the bake will TAKE the warts, but they will go away from the person who placed the stones in the bag.
Milk from the milk thistle rubbed into warts also withers them away.
Cobweb was supposed to stop bleeding.
A poultice of fresh cow-dung applied to a boil, ripened it and broke it.
Soap, sugar & resin powdered finely and mixed together in a paste draws out the inflamation from boils & whitlows.
A Poultice of hot wax applied to boils had the same effect.(continues on next page)
