School: Ballynacargy (C.) (roll number 7893)
- Location:
- Ballynacarrigy, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Óda
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- (continued from previous page)the other half. This was done once and the cough went in a couple of days.
To cure warts. - Get a snail and say pooka pooka put out your horn and I'll give you bread and butter in the morning. Then rub the snail to the wart. Then put the snail in a bag and hang it on a thorny bush and when the snail dies the wart withers away.
To cure warts. - If you accidentally come across a rock with a hole in it and water in the hole, rub the water to the wart and it goes away.
To cure deafness. - Get a thorn from a grainneóg. Put it to the ear and say in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gaynor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynacarrigy, Co. Westmeath
