School: Árd Phádraig
- Location:
- Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 409
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It is said that if you stick a pin in a snail and rub the snail to a wart it will cure it but after rubbing the wart with the snail you must put the snail under a rock so as to cure it rightly. This must be done for seven days putting the snail under a rock each day and then the wart is supposed to be cured and fall away on its own accord.
It is also said that if you get a burn from a nettle you could take away the pain by rubbing a dock-leaf to the burn.
People say if you put a cobweb on a cut it will prevent it from bleeding.
- Collector
- Philomena Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sunville Upper, Co. Limerick
- In Mr. Connolly's field in the townland of Mortalstown, there is a rock, and in this rock there is a hole, in which water is. People say that if you are troubled by warts and rub the water to them(continues on next page)
