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School: Béal Átha Gearr

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Béal Átha Ghártha, Co. na Gaillimhe
Teacher:
Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0184

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    and they will vanish.
    8) Another cure for warts is to rub washing soda on them.
    9) Another way to get rid of warts is to fill a paper bag with sand and leave it on the road and whoever would pick it up would get the person's warts who left the sand there.
    10) Another way to get rid of warts is to steal a bit of bacon and to rub it on them and then to bury it in a manure heap. Then as the bacon would be getting rotten the warts would also get better.
    11) Old people say that if a person had a wound which was bleeding incessantly and if he put a cobweb on it, it would stop.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pádraig Ó Briain
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14