School: Croisín (Crusheen) (B. & C.)
- Location:
- Crusheen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Bruaideadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593B, Page 01_025
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banish them,for instance rubbing the water which stays in a hole in a stone to the warts when they came across it without looking for it,another cure was to stick a black snail on a thorn when the person with the warts came across it without looking for it ,and it was said that as the snale was rotting the warts would be going.
When a cut was bleeding a lot, the person who had the cut would not bind it with a cloath but he would run to the nearest outhouse and he would get a big cobweb and put it over the cut and this would stop the blood and it would keep the cut together.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Cobhthaigh
- Gender
- Male
