School: Naomh Pádraig, Knockvicar
- Location:
- Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 478
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- (continued from previous page)hair on it (8) If you meet a rock with a hole containing water wash the wart in it. (9) Wash the wart at the point where two rivers meet.
Whooping cough: (10) Drink ferret leavings.
Wasp's sting: (11) Rub blue on the affected spot.
Indigestion. (12) Eat eggshells.
Bleeding nose. (13) Tie a twine on the third finger of each hand. (14) Hold back your head. (15) Put blotting sheet under tongue. (16) Put cold stone or penny at back of neck.
Whittles: (17) Place finger in pot of boiling potatoes saying "In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Ghost.
Corns (18) Walk barefooted in a bog.(continues on next page)
