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School: Maynooth (Pres. Convent)

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Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Sr. M. Borgia
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  1. Cures for Warts

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    If you find a snail and to get a thorn of a blackthorn bush to stick it in the snail. Then crush the snail into the wart and leave the snail on the bush. While the snail is dying away the wart dies away.
    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
    Pauline Smyth
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Murphy
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Laraghbryan East, Co. Kildare