School: Kiffa
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- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)When they come about the country they pull bushes out of the ditches and when they are going they leave old pieces of cloth and papers lying about the road.
- Cure for Warts. No 83.
Rub it with a stone, and put the stone (it) in an envelope, and throw it at the first crossroad you (meet) come to.- Collector
- Wilfred Lowry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
- Scour in Calves. No. 84.
Boil dried or withered oak leaves and cinnamon in sweet milk and bottle it to the calves three or four times a day. - To Cure a cut or sore. No 85.
Get a dog to lick it several times a day.
To cure sickly turkeys. 86
Get a live spider and let it crawl down the turkey's throat.
To cure warts 87.
Rub them with the knots on straw in the name of the Trinity