School: Drumshanbo (C.) (roll number 12873)
- Location:
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Margaret Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 044
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- (continued from previous page)Warts.
Here are two cures for "warts" which can be performed by anybody. A black snail is rubbed to them and is then placed on a thorny bush. When the snail is withered the warts will have gone. The second cure is as follows. count the "warts". if there are four place four stones in a paper bag and leave it at a four cross roads. The first person who finds the bag will take the warts.
- Collector
- Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
