School: Clonfinlough, Athlone

Location:
Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
E. Ní Mhionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 292

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 292

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  1. 1. To rub on a strong solution of washing soda cures it.
    2. To write your name in black ink round outside of the ring worm this keeps it from spreading.
    3. Rub with the wedding ring of a married woman whose maiden name was same as her husband's - Kelly married to Kelly.
    4. To mix sulphur with lard and put it on the ring worm.
    5. Rub it with a gold or silver coin.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. If you find a little pool of water accidentally in a rock or hollow stone and rub it on the wart in the name of the father etc. Steal a bit of meat form a butcher's shop and it on the wart in the name of the father etc then bury and as meat withers.
    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. warts (~307)
    Language
    English