School: Mín Bán (roll number 15394)
- Location:
- Meenbane, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Coluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 438
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- 1 Moss-water and treacle are good for healing wounds.
2. John Houston can cure for the momps by leading the person across a stream and make them say, "The Lord's Prayer" and the "Hail Mary".
3. The eighth son of a family can cure the evil.
4 If a person had warts and cut a potato into two parts and rubs them on the warts. Then bury the potato and when it rots the warts will vanish.
5. A person that never saw his father or mother can cure a fersed horse.
6. If a person had a swoolen hand or foot and put linseed meal to it the swoolen will vanish.
- Collector
- Michael Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- 1. Rub the skin of a hen's gizzard on the warts, hide it, and by the time it is rotted the warts will vanish.
2. Smear the warts with a fasting spittle.
3. The water found inside the knot of a straw with some salt rubbed on warts and buried in the manure-heap is also a cure for warts.(continues on next page)
