School: Clonbullogue
- Location:
- Clonbulloge, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. Fitzgerald
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Local Cures.
Warts:- Washing the hands in the trough of water in which the blacksmith cooled the iron.
Putting the milky sap of the "wart weed" on the warts every day for three days.
Rubbing a piece of fat meat on them and then burying the meat. When the piece of meat would rot the warts were supposed to die.
Putting a snail on the warts and then putting the snail on a thorn.
To make a cross of straw, to make the sign of the cross on them with the straw, and then to bury the straw.
Go to where three streams are running. Go to the forge and steal a bottle of water without letting anyone see you. This water will cure warts.
When a person would have warts on his hands he would wash them in the water that would be on top of a cow dung.
