School: Aill
- Location:
- Ayle, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Donnabháin
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- (continued from previous page)the horse's leg in a bucket of water and in a few minutes the horse was cured.
To cure Warts people often got a snail rubbed it to the warts and then stuck it on a thorn.To rub your fasting spit 9 mornings in succession cured warts. One man (Tom OBrien) informs me that the fasting spit was able to take a splint off a horse. To rub meat to warts and then bury it was another cure for them. As the meat decayed the warts did likewise.
