School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)
- Location:
- Tervoe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Stiopháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0527, Page 321
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- The following is a list of local cures:-
1. Warts.
(1) Chicken-weed is a cure for warts (or the juice of a thistle)
(2) Tie a piece of horse hair around it and cut off the wart.
(3) Steal a piece of meat. Bury it in the ground and while the meat is rotting the wart will also wear away.
(4) Get a bag and put as many stones in it as you have warts. Leave the bag at the first cross-road you meet. Whoever finds the bag will take the warts and the sufferer will be cured.
(5) Rub the wart with water found in the hole of a rock.
(6) Get a snail and rub it to the wart. Hang the snail on a gooseberry bush. While the snail is "withering" the wart also withers away.2. Sore Eyes.
(1) Stys. Get a wedding ring and look through it into a green field.
(2) Bathe it in cold tea.
(3)Bathe the eyes in water found in a hole in a rock. (must be found unexpectedly) ("and you not to be looking for it")(continues on next page)
