School: Effin (B.), Ráthluirc (roll number 8333)
- Location:
- Effin, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 055
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- There are alot of traditional stories going around from time to time about warts. One is to fill a tousin with stones and put a stone into the tousin for every wart and to put them behind your back and drop them (behind) in the group and not to look back and the next person would take them.
Two to Bury a piece of meat in the ground and take it up after a few days and rub it to them and they would get all right.
Three to wash with iodine.
Four when you would fasting to spit on them.
Five to rub the root of a fullesfrume on them.
Six to wash them in a bucket of water that a smith would be after cooling a horses shoe in.
- Collector
- P. O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballingaddy, Co. Limerick
