School: Moycarkey, Thurles
- Location:
- Moycarky, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Michael Myers
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- (continued from previous page)4 (contd). Rub the fasting spit each morning to the wart and it will gradually disappear.
5. If, without intent, you happen to come on a flat stone containing some water in a hollow there in, and if you bathe your warts in this water they will quickly disappear.
6. Make the sign of the cross over the wart with a knot of straw, and bury the knot in mud or in the manure heap. Pains in Rheumatism
1. With a bundle of nettles sting well the affected part of your body. Repeat this again and again and you will before very long find your rheumatism improved, if not entirely cured.
2. Carry a small potato in your pocket, and as the potato withers the pains will leave.
3. carry a nutmeg in your pocket, and say one Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory for the poor souls.
