School: St Davaddog's, Tamney

Location:: Tawny, Co. Donegal
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A cure for corns get a living barnacle and tie it on the corns and let it eat out the roots For a bad cut soot and whiskey mixed and rubbed on the wound to make it heal. A cure for whooping cough is to drink as much donkeys milk as you can Cure for stye get ten gooseberries stabs and dab it with the tenth and throw away the other nine Cure for warts a raw potato cut it in two rub it on the warts make up the potato in a parcel and leave it at the first cross roads you meet and they will be away in a week Cure for warts when a butcher is killing a pig put your hands into the wound in the throat and the warts will go away
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Topics
1. activities
  medical practice
  folk medicine (~11,815)
Language

English
Collector
Margaret Carr
Gender

Female
Address

Rosnakill, Co. Donegal

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