School: Sallybank
- Location:
- Drumsillagh or Sallybank (Merritt), Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 169
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- Cures for warts
If a person has warts they can kill them with a snail and rub him to the wart when he would be dead and put him on the wall to rot, and when he would be rotten the wart would also be rotten.
There is another wart cure, also, that is to get nine straws with knots in them and to parcel them up and leave them on the road, and the person who opens it would get them. The straws can be buried also in manure and the wart will be cured also.
If you were walking through a field, and if you found a stone in which water was collected, it is to be a cure for warts.
It is also said if you had warts for to steal meat and to bury the meat and while the meat would be rotting the warts would be going away.
- Collector
- Kitty Fennessy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloghera, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr Christopher Fennessy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghera, Co. Clare
