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School: Doocarrick

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Doocarrick, Co. Cavan
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Miss Oldfield
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  2. A Cure for Warts

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    Cut a bean in halves , cut the wart and put the blood of the wart on the other. then go at midnight at a crossroads and bury the half of the beams. when a person who as warts does this he gets cured.
    Go at midnight to a trunk of a tree in which there is water lying and say "spunk-water, spunk-water, spunk-water cross, spunk-water, spunk-water, follow these warts."
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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)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr J. Johnston
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killycreeny, Co. Cavan