School: Corlea
- Location:
- Corlea, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mearáin
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- Cures
Warts
If when walking along the road and you accidentally come upon a stone with a hole in it, you apply some of this water on a wart it is said that the wart will go away
Get a raw potato and cut it in half rub it to the wart and stick it on a white thorn bush somewhere where you will not see if for a long time. It is said that as the potato withers the wart disappears. It is also said that if you go to a neighbours house and steal a piece of bacon and rub it to the wart it is another cure.
Sprains
Before sun rise and after sun set go to a pond of water where there is neither entrance not exit, gather ten stones, hold the injured limb over the water, at the same time(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Essie White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisagoan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Carolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Lisagoan, Co. Cavan
