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School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)

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Ballyadams, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 086

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 086

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    If two people of the one name get married the bread that they do not eat at meal times is supposed to cure a very bad cough.
    There is a weed growing out in the fields. When it is broken a white thing like milk runs out of it. If anyone had a wart and put it to it it is supposed to cure the wart.
    Three drops of blood out of a black cats tail is a cure for the wild fire.
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    If a person had corns it would cure them if the person took off his boots in a bog and kept his feet in the water until the corns got soft. Then the corn would fall out.
    The milk that a ferret leaves is a cure for a bad cough.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán O Cinnsealla
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyadams, Co. Laois