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School: Monaseed (roll number 15937)

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Monaseed, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Nioclás Ó Diomasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0889, Page 069

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  1. Cure for Warts

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    In this vicinity there is an old belief that if a person were suffering from warts and if he got an oaten or wheaten straw and cut it off at the knot and made the Sign of the Cross with the straw and buried the straw, then as still as the straw would decay the wart would fade and die away. Of course this is only superstition.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Redmond
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Craan Lower, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Ned Mc Donald
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Knockbrandon Upper, Co. Wexford