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School: Askill (roll number 5294)

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Askill, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Padraig Ó Treabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0190, Page 325

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    the water and this is believed a sure cure. (2) Some believe that rubbing the wart with a black snail will remove it. The snail is to be tied to a tree by a string and left there to wither up and as it does so; the wart lessons in size and dies out also.
    To cure a cold. hot buttermilk well sugared and taken when lying down in bed at night was and is a favourite cure for a cold.
    Burns: It is said around here that anyone, who licks a man-keeper that is a four legged reptile found at the bottom of wells has the cure of a burns by licking the burn.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Charles Travers
    Gender
    Male
    Collector
    P.J. Irvine
    Gender
    Male