School: Aughclare
- Location:
- Aughclare, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: M.E. Campbell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)found. If one of these stones is placed in the mouth, it is supposed to cure tooth-ache.The clay off Fr. Clancy's grave in Terrerath graveyard is believed to cure toothache also. The clay is put in the mouth. After a while when the pain ceases, the clay is spat out.Another cure for warts is - Stick a thorn in a snail, and make her froth.
Rub the froth on the wart. Put the snail up on a bush, and if she has withered in nine days the wart will disappear also. Lime is supposed to cure warts also.Another cure for toothache is to put a dead man's tooth in your mouth,
and leave it there for a few minutes, and it is said when you would take it out the toothache would be gone.
