School: Empor (roll number 941)
- Location:
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Gallagher
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- The following cures for ailments or sickness are very common in this locality. I have heard of these cures from a man named Patrick Farrell, Empor, Ballynacargy:
Cures for warts
1. To rub a snail to the wart and then hang the snail on a hawthorn bush and when the snail withers, the wart will wither also.
2. To count the number of warts you have and put as many stones as warts in a bag and throw away the bag and whoever lifts the bag shall take the warts.
3. To burn an elder stick and to make a cross of it on the wart and throw away the stick across your(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eileen Glynn
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Emper, Co. Westmeath