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School: Roxboro, Luimneach (roll number 15680)

Location:
Roxborough, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Gheallagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0525, Page 027

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    Local Cures
    Warts.
    1. Rub the water lodged in the hole of a stone, or in the hollow of a tree to the wart.
    2. Rub the milk of a dandelion to the wart and it would take it away.
    3. Get a rose and smell it. Then throw it on the road, and the person who picks it up will get the wart.
    4. Hide a piece of meat and tell no one where it is. The wart will be gone when the meat is rotten.
    5. Tip the wart with a stone and then put the stone into a piece of paper and throw it away. Whoever picks it up will take the wart.
    6. Place a bag of stones at a cross-road and whoever picks it up, will take the wart.
    7. Take a piece of meat out of another persons house and with it make the sign of the cross three on the wart. Then bury the piece of meat in the ground and as it is rotting the wart will rot also.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jack Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrybeg, Co. Limerick