School: Inniskeen (roll number 13396)
- Location:
- Inishkeen, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Louis A. Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 131
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- (continued from previous page)on a whitethorn bush and according as the snail withered the warts withered. Sore Feet.
To was sore feet in bog water is believed to cure them. Mumps.
A cure for the mumps was, to put a donkey's winkers on the affected person's neck and lead then in, nine times to a pigsy and repeat certain words. Thrush.
Archangel Tar and spirits of salts was believed to be a cure for it."Wildfire"
To rub a piece of gold on "wildfire" was said to cure it.(continues on next page)
