School: Clonfinlough, Athlone

Location:
Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
E. Ní Mhionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 291

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  1. 1. To make a promise not to do a certain thing on a Sunday (such as not to shave.)
    2. To pull a tooth with your own teeth out of a full set of teeth in a skull in a graveyard, and put it back again with your teeth.
    3. To roll a piece of garlic very small and put it into the tooth.
    4. To put bluestone into the tooth
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. toothache (~180)
    Language
    English
  2. Get three double-jointed "thraithneems" plait them together and rub them on the wart, then bury them in the manure heap and as they wither the wart will wither. If you meet a black slug on the way, rub it on the wart three times in the name of the father etc. then out it on a white thorn bush and as the slug withers the wart will wither.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.