Scoil: Streamstown (uimhir rolla 15291)

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   use of the old cures handed down to us by our ancestors in the dim and distant paast, to cure their ailments and maladies. Doctors and physicians and surgeons have no use for them and only the charm of our native herbs can remove the cause of their trouble.
   People who suffer from wildfire or the more common ring-worm will scorn the use of iodine when the magic hand of the seventh son can give quick relief with lasters and other things also.
   Warts can be cured by rubbing a black snail over the affected part and by hanging the snail on a gooseberry thorn. If the snail happens to wither, the warts will wither also.
   Even the most fatal and the most objectionable of all diseases cancer can also be cured by a plaster make up of a number of herbs such as:- "Lady's Mantke", roots of daisies or "Noinins" as the old people called them.
   In the parish of Horseleap there is a place called Sleeve where there is a Holy Well named St Bride's Well where people go to cure burns. It is the custom of the people to bring a pin or a button or a leaf of a tree and leave it at the well and then rub the water on the affected part and it will be cured.

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