School: Urlingford (B.)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   Here again herbs came into use as well as the burning of the garment worn next the skin. Holy wells were visited for obtaining certain cures. Water lodged in cavity of a rock was used to cure warts. To rub a black snail to a wart and then leave him in a bush, when the snail dies the wart disappears. Another cure was to put a stone in a bag for every wart, and leave it where another will find it. That person will take the warts.

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2. Cures

   

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   A toothache was locally cured by rubbing a frog to the decayed part of the tooth. Thrush was cured by a child that never saw his father. He would come fasting on a Monday morning and blow his breath three times on the "thrush".

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