School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)
- Location:
- Slane, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Josephine Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 253
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- (continued from previous page)is to light a blessed candle and make the sign of the cross three times. Then take a little of the candle-grease and put it on the tooth and it will cure it.
The cure for a gum boil is to boil a grass-mouse in fresh milk and give it to the affected person and make them eat it and it will cure them.
In the old churchyard in Fennor there is a little well between two stones and there is a very good cure in it for warts. When you enter the churchyard you have to walk round it once and then kneel at the well and drop a pin in it, splash some water over the warts and say any prayer you like. After a few days they will wither. At the banks of the Boyne there is a holy well and it is said there is a cure in it. Not very long ago there was a blind boy cured in it.
- Collector
- Ena Hussey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fennor, Co. Meath
