School: Scoil na mBráthair, An Teampall Mór (roll number 13247)
- Location:
- Templemore, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 022
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- If a person has warts, he should go to the Blacksmith's forge for nine mornings and wash his warts with the forge water.
Another cure for warts - get a long straw in the meadow and rub it to the warts, then bury the straw and before nine mornings the warts will wear off. If a person has a sty in his eye - a cure for it is to get his mother's ring and make the sign of the cross on his eye with the ring.
If a person gets a sting of a nettle the best thing to do is to get a dock leaf and rub it to the sting.
If a person gets a sting of a bee, he should rub "blue" to it.
If a person gets a cold - he should get milk and boil it and put plenty of pepper into the milk.
If a person has a sore eye - he should bathe his eye in cold tea and after a few mornings it will go away.
If a person has warts rub his fasting spit to them.(continues on next page)
