School: Knockjames

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Knockjames, Co. Clare
Teacher:
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  1. 23
    Cures
    1st.February, 1938.
    The cures for warts are:
    1 To burry a piece of fat meat and when the meat would be rotten the wart would go.
    11 To get a snail and rub it to the wart and the wart would go.
    111 A dock -leaf would cure the burn of a nettle.
    V To put stones into a paper bag and leave them on the road the person that would take the stones
    would get the wart.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Harrison
    Gender
    Female