School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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- Cures for Chilblains
Wash your feet in water that potatoes were boiled in or rub them with a raw onion or oil.Cures for Warts
Make the sign of the cross on it with holy water every Friday for nine Friday's and then it will go away.Second:
Get a black snail and rub it on them.
Hang the snail on a thorn and when he dies the warts will disappear.Third: Rub it with washing-soda every morningFourth: Cut a potato in seven pieces. Rub the wart with each piece seven times and then bless yourself.Fifth: Get two straws and settle them in the shape of a cross in a cart track. When they rot away the wart will also go.Sixth: Go to the well that cures warts in Killick Feehan on a Friday. Rub the water on them(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly