School: Dromin, Dunleer (roll number 6576)
- Location:
- Dromin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ó Cathaláin
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- (continued from previous page)Warts. To dip warts in water that was on top of a stone or on top of cowdung, to cure a wart?
Poultice. Ivy leaves were boiled and used as a poutice?
Chincough. A woman who was married to a man who had the same name as herself to tie a piece of red flannen round your neck, or give you a crust of bread is a cure for the chincough?
Warts. Get nine rushes, bless them and bury them, when they rot, the warts go away?
Sty. Get the oldest son in the house to get ten thorns of a gooseberry bush, and with the last thorn tip the eye, and say, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost? Amen?
Dirt in a cut. Get some boiled Ivyleaves and put them on the cut to draw out any dirt?
Clilbains Rub onions on the chibanes?
Fits. Never eat bacon and you will not take the fits, if you do you may take the fits?
Warts Get some water that does not tip the ground and put it on the warts, and they will go away?
