School: Donard (roll number 2100)
- Location:
- Donard, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Bríghid, Bean Mic Cártaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 084
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- Those old cures have been told by Mrs B Carthy N.T., Donard, Clonroche, who heard them 40 years ago from her grandmother Mrs Bridget Howlett, who died in January 1930 at the age of 96.Warts: 1. Making sign of the Cross on the warts with fasting spittle for nine mornings.
2. Making sign of Cross three times on the warts with water found on a hollow stone when not looking for it.
3. Putting stones in a bag - one for each wart, then throwing the bag on the road and the person finding it was supposed to take the warts.
4. Rubbing the warts with a snail and then sticking it on a bush thorn. When the snail withered away the warts disappeared.Whooping - cough: 1. Going in and out three times under the body of a he-ass.
2. Eating a piece of bread and butter got from a woman whose surname was the same before and after marriage.
3. Syrup made from flowers of Red Clover.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs B. Carty
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Donard, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Howlett
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 96
