School: Cill Chiaráin
- Location:
- Kilkerrin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Chuimín
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- Warts
The person afflicted gets a wisp of straw and blessed the wart with it nine times. Then the straw is placed under a stone and the wart will decay by degrees.A person writes his or her name on a piece of cloth with a burnt stick and then bury the rag secretly. It is said thet while this is decaying the wart will the decaying also.The person who has the wart must find a hollow in a rock and dip the wart in the water three times in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.To apply the juice of chicken-weed to the wart after it bleeds(continues on next page)