School: Craig Dhubh
- Location:
- An Chreig, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Giobúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0101, Page 459
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- (continued from previous page)Warts were cured in this way. They went to a big rock until the found a little water in a little hole in the rock. Then they asked the warts in the water and after a week the warts disappeared.
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They had another remedy for warts. They got a snail and rubbed the snail of the to the warts then they threw him away in the bushes then the warts disappeared after a week.
Sprains: They old people cured sprains in this wart. They went to the weaver and got a thread from him and tied it around the sprain.
Whey: When a persons stomach was upset and if they were vomiting they prepared a drink in this way. First of all they
