School: Tankerstown (roll number 15304)
- Location:
- Tankerstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Thom. F. Meagher
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- Cures for Warts
A cure for a wart is to rub the first
snail you meet to the wart and then
put the snail on a white thorn bush.
Another cure for a wart is to get a
piece of ivy and cut it into the shape of a cross and put it into a manure heap and according as the ivy is getting rotten the wart will be getting smaller.
Take a piece of meat from the chimney of another person's house without being seen and rub it to the wart: then bury the meat in a manure heap. When the meat is rotten the wart will disappear.
- Collector
- Ellen Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilnacask Lower, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Matt Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilnacask Lower, Co. Tipperary
