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School: Whitecastle (roll number 10231)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 234

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  1. Old Time Cures for Warts

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    It is a cure for warts to wash them in pigs blood. There are wells of St Patrick and if we wash our warts in them it will cure them. It is also a cure for warts to rub clay on them and throw it after a funeral. If we row a boat with an outgoing tide our warts will be cured. When we stick a pin in our warts and then stick the same pin in a grave our warts will be cured.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Andrew Taylor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drung, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Taylor
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Drung, Co. Donegal