School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)throw one over your shoulder is a cure for warts.
An other cure for warts is to rub a rush on the warts and hide it.
An other cure for warts is to keep a skin of a hens gizzard and hid it out side and never look at it. The warts will all wear off you.
An other way for taking warts off is by getting a horse hair and tying it round the wart. It is supposed to cut off the wart by degrees.
A cure for warts was to rub washing soda on them.
Another cure was to rub a fasting spittle on them.
A good cure for warts is to wash them in a little hole of water which you would find between rocks.
A way of banishing warts is to put leaves under a stone. By the time the leaves are rotten the warts are gone.
To banish warts people used get a black snail and tie it to a tree. As the snail rotted the warts disappeared.
A cure for warts is to put a rush(continues on next page)
