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School: Tuar an Fhíona, Baile na Molt (roll number 8133)

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Tooraneena, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Nóra Nic Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0647, Page 123

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    top of his finger, drawing blood. The blood is rubbed in a circle around the affected part.
    A cure for warts was to go along and see water on a stone unexpected and by rubbing this water to the warts it was supposed to banish them.
    It was another custom for warts to get an alder branch and cut a mark on it for every wart you had and then to bury it unseen and when the alder was rotten the warts would also have disappeared.
    An old cure for a toothache was to get bread soda and salt and rub it in the tooth.
    A cure for a pain on your back is to lie down on the ground and leave another person walk on your back.
    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
    Eilís Ní Chadhla
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynamult, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Cáit Breathnach
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynamult, Co. Waterford