School: Monreagh (roll number 7143)
- Location:
- Monreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: R. J. James
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- (continued from previous page)The person who finds it gets the warts also.
Cut a potato in two pieces rub them on the warts when a funeral is passing throw the pieces after it saying
"As you are going away Never to come back. Here are the warts to take with you"
Get a black snail rub the warts with it then tie it to a thorn bush with a white cloth.
Rub the warts with water from tank in a forget. Do this for nine days.
Cut a potato in two rub warts with them then bury one of the pieces.
Rub warts with blood of newly killed pig.
For strys, take seven thorns from a gooseberry bush select one and push it into the stye seven times.
The disease knows as "The Rose" can be cured by the seventh son of a seventh son.
It seems that when a person of this description is born the nurse puts something into his hand a piece of bread a piece of butter or something similar.
When a person takes "The Rose" he or she sends a piece of butter or bread to the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Gladys James
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Monreagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs B. Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cross, Co. Donegal