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School: Mulrankin

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Mulrankin, Co. Wexford
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Peadar Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0877, Page 193

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    Local Cures
    The juice of a dock leaf if applied to the sting of a nettle will cure it, it also cures the stings of horse flies.

    When the nose is bleeding tie a piece of string on the little finger,
    if the left nostrel is bleeding tie it on the right finger and if the right one is bleeding tie it on the left finger and if the two are bleeding tie the two fingers.
    Paper will stop blood if wet and applied to the wound, a cob web will also stop it.
    There is a blessed well in the cemetery of Killcowan which cures warts. The person to be cured must go to the well three times and say three Hail Marys each time and dip the warts in the well.
    If you wash yourself in butter milk it would give you a good complection.
    An ivy leaf stops the blood of a cut hand or leg.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosie Kavanagh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mulrankin, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mrs Cassidy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    45
    Address
    Bridgetown, Co. Wexford