School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Patrick
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- 1. Warts : A man in Kilcolgan, called Michael Rourke cures warts. He says prayers and makes a cross with straws and then buries the cross. As the straw rots the wart disappears.
Another cure is to rub a black snail on a wart, and then put the snail on a thorn, and as the snail dies the wart disappears.
Holy water cures a wart, by rubbing it on for nine days.
2 Wild - Fire : A man named Walsh, whose mother's maiden name was Walsh, cures wild-fire by bleeding his little finger and rubbing the blood on the affected part.
3 A stye on the eye : This is cured by get-ting a thorn of a gooseberry bush and pointing it three times every morn-ing for nine mornings, and then bury-ing the thorn, and the stye gets better.
4 Ring- Worm : The cure for ring-worm is to get a gold ring and rub it on the sore part.
5 Whopping Cough : It is cured by the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Imelda Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mrs Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly