School: Newtown National School (roll number 9549)
- Location:
- Newtown (Guest), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)1. The cure for wild-fire is if their are two people of the same name married, the blood of their child will cure wild-fire.
2. The cure for toothache is, whiskey, and breadsoda, and iodine.
3. The cure for a bleeding horse or animal. There is a woman living down the road, and she can cure an animal from bleeding, with a prayer, but nobody knows the prayer.
You spit on washingsoda and rub it to your warts, and it cures them.
Another cure for warts is, to spit on a straw and rub it to the wart, then bury the straw and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Wesley Armitage
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Behamore (Smith), Co. Tipperary