School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Boys) (roll number 16332)
- Location:
- Skerries, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: T. Mc Namee
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Local Cures (continued from page 69)
Skerries, Co. Dublin.Some of the best known cures about Skerries are for warts, to wash the hand in forge water is considered a good cure; to let a black snail bleed the wart or to get nine mots of straw and say a Hail Mary on each mot.
For toothache, to rinse the mouth in the water after boiled cabbage, or to eat an onion raw.
When a person gets a sting of nettle, some people say rub it with a Dawkin leaf. Here is a saying which a person should say to get rid of stings:- "Dawkin, Dawkin, round about, take the sting of a nettle out."(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Fox
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Strand Street, Co. Dublin