School: Kildraught (2)
- Location:
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Ní Armhultaigh
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- 12. To get a stone for every wart and lay them on the warts, put the stones in a little bag go to a cross roads, swing round your head nine times then let it fly. Whoever finds the bag will get the warts and your warts will vanish.
13. Rub juice of a pipe on wart.
14. Steal a big of fat bacon, rub it on the wart then bury it in the ground as the bacon rots the wart will vanish away
15. Rub red sulphur of a match on wart
16. Rub a stick of caustic on a wart.
17. Put the wart in as hot water as you can bear and take it out in a few minutes and rub the sulphur of a match on it for a few days.
18. Get a poultice and put some tobacco spit on it and place on wart and as the tobacco wears away the wart will go away - 14. Steal a bit of fat bacon, rub it on warts then bury it in the ground as the bacon rots the warts will vanish away
- 15. Rub red sulphur of match on warts.16. Rub a stick of caustic on a wart.
- 17. Put the wart in as hot water as you can bear and take it out in a few minutes and rub the sulphur of a match on it for a few days.
- 18. Get a poultice and put some tobacco spit on it and place on wart and as the tobacco wears away the wart will go away.
- Informant
- Mr Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare