School: Rathcoyle, Kiltegan
- Location:
- Rathcoyle Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)on your hands. Then leave the bag on a cross-roads, and the first person who finds the bag will find the warts.
If a person is getting bald he should get a few straws, burn them and place the ashes under the hearthstone. For every straw that decays a hair will grow on the head of the bald person. If a person has chilblains he should get a turnip, scoop it, and fill the hole with salt. When the salt melts in the turnip rub it on the chilblains and they will then disappear.
- If a person cuts his hand it is said that if a cobweb be placed on the wound it will stop it from bleeding.
If a person has warts on his hands it is said that if he puts the water off boiled potatoes on them it would cure them.
If a person had a corn on his foot it is said if they put washing-soda when melted on the corn it will take it off in a short time.
Tobbacco water is said to cure ring-worms.(continues on next page) - Informant
- John Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Killamoat Upper, Co. Wicklow
