School: Oulart (roll number 15419)
- Location:
- Oulart, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó hAilleacháin
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- Whooping Cough :- To walk under an ass three times.
If two people got married of the same name, the bread they would make would cure the whooping cough
Warts :- To put as many as warts in a bag and leave them at a cross-roads and the person that would pick up those stones would get the warts.There is a wart well in Kilcormock and a lot of people go to it for cures
Rub the head of a match about the wart three times until the wart disappears.
Make a hole in the middle of the wart and put ink in the hole
Tooth Ache :- Fill your mouth full of water and hold it over the fire until it boils
Get a frog and rub it along the tooth three times making the sign of the cross each time. Then let the frog away.
The ache is supposed to hop away with the frog if it is not hurt while in your(continues on next page)
