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School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)

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Cappamore, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
James McCarthy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 183

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    wart will be cured (James Sweeney)
    5. There are several cures for warts, bu the best cure is, anyplace there is a big rock with a hollow in the centre of it, when it rains, a little water will stay in the hollow of the stone, and dip your wart in the water and when the water will go away off the rock the wart will leave your hand or foot at the same moment (James Daly)
    6. When a person has a wart on his head, the best way to cure it is to pull a rib of hair from his fringe and tie it around the wart tightly and after a day or two the wart will fall off. (Willie Joe Gleeson)
    7. To get rid of a wart on your hand, rub a piece of fat meat to the wart and hide the fat meat under a stone unknown to anyone, and as soon as the fat meat will rot the wart will rot away (Willie Joe Gleeson)
    8. Get two small stones with nine holes in each stone. Tey you must hide the two stones under a big rock, but let no one see you hiding the stones. Then after a couple of days
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
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