School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mother Philomena
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- (continued from previous page)three paters and aves, and putting a spoon in the mouth, pulls three hairs out of the person’s head. This is done, three evenings, in succession, always before sunset. A cure for a wart is, to go to a pool in a rock and bathe it in it, while doing so, say, “Wart, wart, go away, never come back to me to stay.”
If on the day of his birth a worm is put in the hand of the seventh son, he has the cure of the toothache.- Collector
- Bernie Campbell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal