1. A cure for a sore throat is to roast salt and out it into a Stocking and tie it around your throat at night. 2. A cure for a headache is to put your nose over a cup of tea and sniffle it in. 3. The seventh son or daughter of a family can cure ringworm. 4. If a person had the thrush or chincough and visit holy wells and if they said prayers and make a promise to do some good act they would be cured. 5. The cure for a wart is if you get a black snail without looking for it and rub it on the wart and then hang the snail on a thorny bush and while the snail is withering away the wart is withering also. 6. A cure for sore eyes is to bathe them with black tea.
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