School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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- Cure for Measles
Boil young nettles + give them to the sick person to eat in porridge
Cure for a Wart
If you come across a stone with a hole containing water. Rub the water on the wart + make the sign of the cross. You must not look fore the stone - A cure for Ringworm
The seventh son of a family to blow his breath upon it
Cure for a Whittle
Break a black snail and put it on the whittle
Bogdirt will cure a corn.
Rub a black snail on the wart and then hand the snail on a thorn according as the snail withers the wart will disappear.(continues on next page)- Collector
- B. Nigh Riabaigh
- Gender
- Female