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School: Ferbane (Convent)

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Ferbane, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Sr. Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 353

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    Warts: Get a black snail and rub it on the wart. Put the mail on a thorn to die, and when the snail dies the wart disappears.
    Boils: Put boiling water on loaf bread and put it on the boil and it will curer it.
    Toothache: Do three stations round Saint Kiernan's Well, in Clonmacnoise.
    Stye: Get ten gooseberry thorns, point nine of the thorns at the stye, bless yourself, and throw away the tenth over your shoulder, and the stye will be cured.
    Wild Fire: The blood of a Walsh is able to cure it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Dunican
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Endrim, Co. Offaly