School: St Columba's Abbey, Navan (roll number 882)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Br. Abban O' Donoghue
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- XML “Ringworm”
- XML “The Foul Mouth”
- XML “Warts”
- XML “Warts”
- XML “Warts”
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- (continued from previous page)of the nine days the ringworm will be cleared.
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- There are many cures for warrts and here are three of the commonest in this district. to tie a horse hair around it or if you were walking around not thinking of it and you met a snail to pick it up and rub it on the wort would cure it. To rub it with the water of a grave headstone.
- To rub the wart with the water in which the blacksmith cools the irons.
- To get a potatoe and each morning rub the potatoe on the wart. Cut a slice of the potatoe each morning. When the potatoe is wasted away the wart will get better.