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School: An Ghráinseach, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12700)

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Grange West, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Díomsaigh
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  2. Local Cures

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    It was an old cure for warts to pick a thorn off a gooseberry bush for every wart and bury them in the ground and as the thorns decayed the warts were supposed to disappear off the person's hands.
    It was a cure for asty on the eye to make the Sign of th Cross on it.
    It was believed that a cure for stopping the blood of a cut finger was to wind a spider's web around
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