School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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- XML “Cures for Warts”
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- (continued from previous page)and the warts will go away.
- Take a piece of raw meat and rub your wart with it, and then hang the meat to a tree, and as the meat rots the warts go away.
- Collector
- Kathleen Deeny
- Gender
- Female
- a) One cure is to take the fresh green tops which grow on whin bushes and boil them, and then drink the water which the tops are boiled in. b) Take the roots of whins and boil them, and drink the water which the roots are boiled in.c) Get dandelions and get the milk from them which is in the stalk and drink it.
- Collector
- B. Philomena Deeny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- H. Harvey
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Gleneely, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs P. Ruddy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Rev. F. Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- A good cure for a sore back is to put the skin of a hare on the back where it is sore.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- B. Philomena Deeny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- J. Crampsey
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Anna Deeny
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female