School: Harristown, Piltown (roll number 13449)
- Location:
- Baile Anraí, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)is to get one straw and make two halves of it. Make the Sign of the Cross over the wart with the straw. Bury the staws in the dung and when the straws rot the wart goes.A plaster made of washing soda and lime is a cure for warts.Take a straw for every wart. Cut out the knots. Put the knots into a hole in the wall. When the knots wither the warts wither.When a person with warts sees a new moon he takes up what every thing is under the sole of his foot. Rubs it over the wart. Makes the sign of the Cross on them.Ashes of a pipe is a cure for ringworm.
