School: Cill Mhuire (C.), Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10395)

Location:
Kilmurry, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máiréad Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 039

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  1. XML School: Cill Mhuire (C.), Oileán Ciarraí
  2. XML Page 039
  3. XML “Cleas na Péiste”
  4. XML “Cures for Warts”
  5. XML “Cure for Rheumatism and Neuritis”

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  1. Put a pebble for each wart into a bag. Take it to the crossraods and leave it there where it cannot be missed. The first person who looks into the bag takes the warts.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. This is a cure of which one family has the monopoly. Take a parcel of lard to a certain gentleman. He mixes it with his fingers, whether he has any other mixture or not is not known. He destroys the paper in which lard was brought and puts a fresh paper round the mixture.
    He first applies the lard with the tips of his fingers to the affected part, and rubs it in with a piece of the paper which is round the parcel. When applying the cure afterwards it is essential that the person must rub it in with a piece of the paper which is round the parcel, and put the paper used for each application in a hole in the wall outside the dwelling house.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. rheumatism (~57)
    Language
    English