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School: Carley (roll number 5332)

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Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Brigid Cooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 334

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    “The woman distributed the butter amongst her neighbours.”

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
      2. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    2. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    3. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
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    “The people in olden times believed in cures like this for warts...”

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    The people in olden times believed in cures like this for warts they would steal a bit of bacon out a neighbours house and rub it to a wart and bury it and as it would be decaying, the wart would be dying.
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