School: Drumgossatt (B.) (roll number 14071)
- Location:
- Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Old people say when you get a bad cut and it bleeding very hard to get a bit of grass on one side of the road and get another on the other side of the road and make it like a cross in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen
Old people say a good cure for warts to get a dish of water and put some soda in it and put your hand in it and put a hot spoon on top of the wart. Some say that if you get a stone on the road with a hole in it with water in it and put hand in it and it will cure it Another cure for warts is to get a big black snail when you are not looking for him and rub the snail to the wart and when you are don hang the snail on a bush till it is rotten and the wart will rot away too
A cure for the mumps is to get an ass's winkers and put them on the person who has the mumps(continues on next page)
