School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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- (continued from previous page)remains to the burial place - "corpse corpse carry away my warts."
(vii) Mrs Costello, Gowel, Kilclare, Co. Leitrim has another cure for warts. The two specified days are Mondays and Thursdays. She gets ten rushes and rubs each in turn on every wart and then buries them in the manure heap. While the rushes are decaying the warts vanish.II Whooping Cough:
(i) Food left after a ferrit, commonly called "ferrit's leavings."
(ii) To drink milk in which has been boiled a hair of a posthumous child. Two boys living in Carrick-on-Shannon, named Joseph Lowe and Sean Burke have this cure.(continues on next page)