School: Ballymore (B.) (roll number 7443)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P.J. Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 261
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- People rub a black snail on the warts and put him on a thorn. When the snail is gone off the thorn, the warts will be cured. Dip your hand in the water in the forge on monday and thursday and on the following monday the warts will be cured. People say that if you rub washing soda on warts it will cure them.
- When you have a Hic Cough you should take nine drops of water without drawing your breath.If you accuse anyone of taking money his Hic Cough will go. Any person who licks an All Puker has a cure in his tongue. If he gets a scald of boiling water he licks it and it will be cured.IF you have a stye in your eye you should get ten gooseberry thorns and point nine at the stye and throw the other one away. In twenty(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anthony Mac Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Miss K. Clines
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
