School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)
- Location:
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- Teacher: L. Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)egg. The cuckoo follows the older ones on their flight.
- The most common cures for wart's in this district are to make the sign of the cross on the wart's with the froth off boiling potatoes, and to rub a snail on the wart's and to hang it on a white-thorn bush and when the snail withers the wart's will wither. Another cure is the put your fasting spit on them for nine consecutive mornings. Once I had wart's on my hand. I tried many remedies but they were of no avail. I heard of a man who lived in the Co. Kildare who had power to cure wart's. One day I went to the man. He got three straws and one had a knob on it. He made a cross out of two of them and he rubbed the warts with the other straw and said some prayers. In the course(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Lynam
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Laois
- Informant
- James Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Laois