School: Craughwell (B)
- Location:
- Craughwell, Co. Galway
- Teacher: E. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0035, Page 0125
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- (i) - Cures for Warts
(1) If you are walking along a field and to see a rock in it and without expecting it to wash the wart in the [wart] water that is in the top of the rock.
2) If you rub bacon of your warts and then hide it in a dung heap and while the bacon is going away the wart would be curing
3) Three straws of the thatch and break them at the points and burn the ends of them and measure the warts with them.
4) Dip the wart in the water in a forge without the blacksmith seeing you.
5) To rub the juice of a dandelion to them.(continues on next page)
