School: Johnstown, Arklow
- Location:
- Johnstown Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Nelly Bolger
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- To cure a wart : Get a snail. Rub the snail on the wart. Then put the snail upon a bush-thorn and when the snail dies the wart disappears.
Or rub a head of a sulphur match on the wart twice a day and say a prayer.
To cure a sprained ankle : - put your foot into a running stream and have a dish of hot water beside you and keep moving your foot from one water to another.
Cure for a tooth-ache :- Get a frog and make the sign of the Cross on the tooth with the frog.
The cure for a heart-burn :- Get a cup of butter-milk and put a spoon full of bread-soda into it and stir both up.
Cure for scalded feet :- Use alum and sulpher powder in a basin of luke-warm water.
Cure for the teeth :- Put your finger in your ears and let some person fill your mouth with water.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire Ní Bhrían
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Roisín Ní Dhiomsaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballygriffin, Co. Wicklow