School: Raharney (B.)
- Location:
- Raharney, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Ó Conmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 026
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- (continued from previous page)Our Fathers and three Hail Marys in the morning for a week. Then the warts will disappear.
Get a turnip, scrape a hole in the middle of it, put a handful of salt in it, dip the warts in it every morning for nine mornings, bless yourself and after the ninth morning they will disappear.
Tie a silken thread on a wart and it will cure it.
Get a little white bag, count the number of warts, then count an equal number of stones and put them into the white bag, throw them at a crossroads and the person that gets the bag will get the warts after a while.(continues on next page)
