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School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)

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Clongeen, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Brian Ó Broin
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    a font in the old church. People go to it still. They visit it three times and make the sign of the cross" each time and they rub the water on the warts.
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    If you had warts on your hand, get as much stones as there is warts
    Rub each stone on each wart make the sign of the cross, put them in a little bag and leave it on the road. Whoever will get the bag of stones will get the warts also.
    If you held your head over a mug of hot water it would take the pain away.
    If you got a cut of bread from two married persons the one name it would cure the chin-cough.
    They would give a child with the thrush borax and honey.
    If a person had the whooping cough, they used to hold a frog over the person that would have it, when the person would
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Bohanna
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Loughnageer, Co. Wexford