School: Ballyporeen (roll number 15134)
- Location:
- Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: L. Ó Conchubhair
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- This is a cure I heard from my father a few years ago for a wart. He heard this from his father long ago. If you have a wart go to a little pool of water near a rock, which you have never happened to see before. Then make the sign of the cross on the wart and bathe it in the pool and it will soon disappear.
- Collector
- Seán Ua hAoileán
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary
- I have heard the following cure for a wart. This is the cure:- go to a well and find a brown stone with a hole in the middle of it. Rub that stone to your wart. You may have to go to the well for a fortnight.
- I heard of a cure for a wart at my grandmothers. The following is the cure:- rub your fasting spit to it every morning before your breakfast. Also to steal a piece of meat in the neighbourhood and rub the meat to it and hide the meat under a stone until it rots and when it rots the wart will be gone.
- I heard a cure for chillblains from my mother. She heard it from her neighbours. The cure is:- on an old ruined house you would find white ivy growing with the green ivy. Pull as many leaves as(continues on next page)
