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School: Curraghmore (roll number 12714)

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Curraghmore, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Donagh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 106

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  1. Cures (continued)

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    The cure of corns is to walk in a wet bog.
    Baba Carty,
    Wooddown,
    Mullingar
    Obtained from:
    Ms. Mc cormack (15)
    (Same address)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Cures

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    The cure of the chin cough is to get your God father to put nine knots on a yard of red tape.
    The cure of warts is to rub a snail to the warts and stick him on a white thorn and on the ninth morning the wart wil disappear.
    The cure of a sty in your eye is to point nine gooseberry thorns to the sty for nine mornings.
    The cure of a bad cough is to boil nine garlic roots with table vinegar.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Leonard
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Curraghmore, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Mrs Brigid Leonard
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    37
    Address
    Curraghmore, Co. Westmeath