School: Kinsealy (C.)
- Location:
- Kinsaley, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Garvey
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Warts.
Take a snail in a box, rub it on the wart. Place the snail on a thorn. As the snail withers, the wart disappears.
Put a stone in a bag for every wart you have. Leave the bag on the road. Whoever takes up the bag will get the warts.
Steal a potato, cut it in nine parts, bury it. As the potato rots, the warts will disappear.
Cut the wart with a horse hair.
Wartweed is also a cure.
Rub the milk.
Whooping cough.
Take a large Spanish onion. Cut it in thin slices, with a pound of(continues on next page)- Collector
- Feidhlimín Ní Cobhthaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Kinsaley, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Caitlín Ní Chobhthaigh
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Kinsaley, Co. Dublin