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School: Island Parish

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Ballina, Co. Offaly
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Seán Ó Móráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 337

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    Cures for Chilblains
    Wash your feet in water that potatoes were boiled in or rub them with a raw onion or oil.
    Cures for Warts
    Make the sign of the cross on it with holy water every Friday for nine Friday's and then it will go away.
    Second:
    Get a black snail and rub it on them.
    Hang the snail on a thorn and when he dies the warts will disappear.
    Third: Rub it with washing-soda every morning
    Fourth: Cut a potato in seven pieces. Rub the wart with each piece seven times and then bless yourself.
    Fifth: Get two straws and settle them in the shape of a cross in a cart track. When they rot away the wart will also go.
    Sixth: Go to the well that cures warts in Killick Feehan on a Friday. Rub the water on them
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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
    Brigid Connolly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballina, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Thomas Connolly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballina, Co. Offaly