School: Lower Warren (roll number 7793)
- Location:
- Warren Lower, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Liam Mac Coiligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 249
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- If a person licks the belly of a Dardeel when he would have a burn and then lick the burn it would be cured after a couple of days.
- When the seventh son is born it is said that his father or mother puts a worm in his hand and if the worm dies he is supposed to have some cure.
- Anybody who never seen their father has a charm to cure sore mouth.
Thomas Fitzgerald a native of Castledaly has a charm for curing eresiplisis or lifting the palet of the mouth. Lifting the palet of the mouth, which is done by lifting a certain hair on the top of the head. - A black snail if found when not looking for it. Rubbed three times on the wart. The wart will disappear.
