School: Béal Átha Gearr
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0183
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- (continued from previous page)and then let him walk away eleven steps with his eyes closed and turn around three times and let him walk home without speaking to anybody. But if he speaks to anybody the charm is broken and he will get more warts.3) If a person had warts and if he met a stone with a hollow in it without searching for it and it filled with water he should rub that water on the warts and they will vanish.4) If a child had the whooping cough and if he met a man with a white horse if he asked him for a cure for the whooping cough no matter what the man told him if he complied with his advice he would be cured. 5) If a person had a stye in his eye and if he got a dog to lick it, it would be cured.6) Also to get a twig of a gooseberry bush on which grows two thorns out of one foundation and to stab the eye with one of these then it would be cured.7) The cure for warts is to get a snail in a shell (without looking for him) and to prick him with a thorn until froth would appear and then to rub the froth on the warts(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Briain
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
