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School: Gallen

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Gallen, Co. Offaly
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T.R. Goodwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 104

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    Warts
    If you are going along the road and see a hole in a rack with some water in it, dip the warts in the water three times and make the sign of the cross.
    Whooping Cough
    Get a white ass and give him a piece of bread. Then collect the crumbs and put them out under the ass three times and give them to the child who has the whooping cough.
    Sun burns
    Go out and wash your face in the dew under a lone tree on a (My) May morning.
    Burns
    Any man who licks an newt has the power of curing a burn. The newt is called an alpuchar.
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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
    Owen Bennett
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Noggusboy, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Patrick Bennett
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    51
    Address
    Noggusboy, Co. Offaly