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School: Charleville, Tullamore

Location:
Charleville Demesne, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
S. Ó Bhealóg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0808, Page 012

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    Home Cures
    Warts
    Get a broad bean, cutting as many notches in it, as there are warts on the hands. Then bury the bean and when it gets rotten the warts will disappear. Pick up a piece of clay off the road on which the wheel of a hearse has gone and rub it on the warts.
    Wildfire
    Some people cured wildfire by cutting a vein and rubbing the blood on the wildfire and it disappeared.
    Colic
    Go to a spring well on May morning before sunrise and take three sips of water in the name of The Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and they will never have colic again.
    Eye
    Chillblaine
    Corns
    Bathe it with cold tea. Rub them with paraffin oil. Walk in the dew every morning in bare feet as a cure for sore feet.
    Cold
    Boil butter milk with new
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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
    Bella Gamage
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Charleville Demesne, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs Gamage
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Charleville Demesne, Co. Offaly