School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis

Location:
Kilrush, Co. Clare
Teacher:
An tSr. Pól
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  1. Cure for wart - When a person wakes up in the morning if he applies the first spit on the wart, it would cure it.
    If bread is baked on Good Friday and kept in water it is supposed to cure disease.
    A fowl is always killed on St. Martin's Day and if the blood of that fowl is spilt on a bit of wool it will cure great pains.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Behan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilrush, Co. Clare
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    In East Clare it is considered unlucky to burn the elder tree.

    In East Clare it is considered unlucky to burn the elder tree. The belief is that should anyone in the house have a headache at the time that it would never leave him. It is supposed that the Cross was made of this wood.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.