School: Ballykelly
- Location:
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Uadain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 273
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- (continued from previous page)weed on it. The chicken weed should be rolled in cream before its put on.
Put a spunk leaf on a sore and it will draw anything bad that is in the sore out of it.
A cure for a sty is to get a gooseberry-thorn and point it at the sty and say "it is a sty" three times and the sty will go away.
A cure for warts is to gather as many pebbles as there are warts and put them in a paperbag and leave it on the road where someone would pick it up. The person that would pick it up would get the warts and the other would be cured.
March mallows are a cure for a white swelling (blister).
It should be first boiled and then the swelling should be washed with the water that the "March mallows" are boiled in.
The juice of a house leek is a cure for sore eyes.
A poultice of boiled snails is a cure for sore feet.
- Collector
- Mick Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Whitechurch, Co. Wexford
