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School: Ferbane (Convent)

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Ferbane, Co. Offaly
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Sr. Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 349

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    To cure warts dip a straw in water, then rub the top of the straw on the warts, and do not look at it and it will fall off in a few days.
    For a sore throat roast salt and put it in a piece of cloth and tie it around your neck. There is a weed growing in the hedge called 'fox tongue'. Heat it to the fire and put it on a burn and it will cure it.
    The seventh son has a charm to cure ringworm. Any man named Walsh can cure wildfire by the blood of his finger.
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