School: Lusmagh
- Location:
- Gortarevan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Ó Floinn
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- 1. If you get the jaw bone of a hedge-hog and carry it in your pocket it would cure a tooth-ache.
2. If you put sheep-dung on a wart it would cure it.
3. If you got a snail and rub it on a wart and then put him on a thorn bush according as the snail is dying away the wart will be going away.
4. If you rub a gold ring on a sty on your eye three times and it will cure it.
5. If a person has rheumatism and carry a potato in his pocket and it would cure it.(continues on next page)- Collector
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