School: Kilmurry
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- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- XML “Local Cures - Sore Throat”
- XML “Local Cures - Warts”
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- (continued from previous page)a few hours. Then it is taken off and red flannel placed in its stead
8. Another cure is to dip a silk cloth in spring water and then put on the neck over night. - 1.Wash them in soda and holy water
- 2.Another way to cure warts is to rub them with a black snail and hang it on a bush.
- 3. By rubbing the juice of a dandelion on warts they could be cured.
- 4. Warts are cured by stealing a bit of fat bacon and rubbing it on them and then to hide the bacon under stone.
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- Collector
- Gretta Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Dalton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- 7.To make the sign of the cross with straw upon the wart it will cure them it.
8.If you put your hand in the water that the blacksmith cools his irons in it will cure warts.