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School: Tervoe (B.) (roll number 5564)

Location:
Kilkeedy, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Liam S. Ó Ciardha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0527, Page 258

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    (1) Baby suffering from sore mouth
    A man who had never seen its father, to blow his breath into the child's mouth on nine consecutive days.
    (2) Warts
    (a) Bathing the wart in rain water collected on hole in a rock
    (2) Rubbing the wart with two crossed straws
    (3) Rubbing the wart with a snail
    (4) Looing at new moon - closing eyes and grasping nearest object to you. Application of this object to wart.
    (5) Parcel made up and left on the road by person suffering from warts. First person that picks up the parcel contracts the ailment, and it passes off the person afflicted
    (6) "Buying" the warts. Coin rubbed by another to wart Wart passes from one to another in course of time
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English