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 413

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 413

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  1. Get two pieces of straw and make a cross with them then get a pin and put it through them, and point it to the wart. After a few days you will see bits of the warts falling off.
    Get a black snail and rub it on the wart three time and put him o a black thorn bush.
    Get forge water and rub it three times of the wart.
    If you stick a black snail on a thorn and while the snail is withering away the wart will also wither away.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
    Language
    English