School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0756, Page 004
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- XML “Charms and Prayers and Cures - Charm to Stop the Blood”
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- XML “Charms and Prayers and Cures - A Cure for Taking Out a Thorn”
- XML “Charms and Prayers and Cures - A Cure for a Wart”
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- (continued from previous page)And by His power and by His name,
I command this blood to do the same"
- A cure for a sty in the eye is to pick ten goose-berry thorns and point to the eye and then throw one away and point the nine twice after saying "In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Ghost.
- Collector
- Olibhéar O Catháin
- Gender
- Male
- A Cure for taking out a thorn. Get a dead foxe's tongue and place it on the part where thorn is and the thorn will be drawn out.
- Get a worm and put it on a thorn until it withers and when it has withered so will the wart.
- Another cure for a wart is to rub a snail(continues on next page)
